Oxaziridine enantioselective oxidation

These reagents exhibit good stereoselectivity toward chiral reactants, such as acylox-azolidinones.253 Chiral oxaziridine reagents have been developed that can achieve enantioselective oxidation of enolates to a-hydroxyketones.254... 

Optically active oxaziridines are useful reagents for the enantioselective oxidation of olefins 37 39). The following three preparative methods to make this reagent available have been reported enantioselective oxidation of an imine by (-)-peroxycam-phoric acid 37,38), photocyclization of a nitrone which has a chiral substituent39), and photocyclization of a nitrone in an optically active solvent 39). However, an... 

Toda, F., and Ochi, M. (1996) Enantioselective Oxidation of Imines in Inclusion Complexes with a Chiral Host Compound and Preparation of Optically Pure Oxaziridines by Enantiomer Resolution, Enantiomer, 1, 85-88. 

Chiral sulfoxides or selenoxides.1 This oxaziridine (1) is generally more effective than the modified Sharpless reagent of Kagan (13, 52) for enantioselective oxidation of alkyl aryl sulfides or selenides to the corresponding sulfoxides or selenoxides. The polar Cl groups of 1 improve both rate and the enantioselectivity. 

Several oxaziridines related to (14) (eq 8) have been used, most notably in the enantioselective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides, of selenides to selenoxides, and of alkenes to oxiranes, It is also the reagent of choice for the hydroxylation of lithium and Grignard reagents and for the asymmetric oxidation of enolates to give a-hydroxy carbonyl compounds, - A similar chiral fluorinating reagent has also been developed, ... 

Enantioselective oxidation of Z-aryl cinnamyl allylic selenide (83) with oxaziridine (—)-(69) gave 1-phenyl allyl alcohol (85) via an allyl selenoxide-selenate [2,3] sigmatropic rearrangement (Scheme... 

Enantioselective oxidation using Davis chiral oxaziridine reagents is not as well developed as its diastereoselective counterpart. However, a number of simple enolates have been... 

Enantioselective Oxidation with (Camphorsulfonyl) Oxazi-ridines. The synthesis of 2-substituted-2-hydroxy-l-tetralones from 2-substituted- 1-tetralone sodium enolates, obtained from the corresponding ketones and NaHMDS, proceeded with high enan-tioselectivities in the presence of (+)-(2i ,8ai )-[(8,8-dichloro-camphoryl)sulfonyl]oxaziridine (eq 24). ... 

Although optically active oxaziridines are useful reagents for enantioselective oxidation of olefins, those of more than 30% ee have not been obtained by any enantioselective synthetic method. Very efficient enantioselective photocyclization of nitrones (27) in the complex with 18 into oxaziridines (28) of high optical purity was found (Table II) [20]. Enantioselectivity in the formation of 28b, 28d, and 28e... 

The enantioenriched sulfoxide intermediate 72 (R = CH2OH), obtained by asymmetric 5-oxidation with a chiral oxaziridine (89 11 enantiomeric ratio), has provided a highly enantioselective synthesis of the benzothiepin derivative 71 (4R, 5R). The aldehyde intermediate 72 (R = CHO) was cyclized asymmetrically to 71 (4R, 5R) with >98 2 enantiomeric ratio. Base treatment (f-BuOK, -10°C, THF) of the racemic benzothiepin 73... 

Enantioselective synthesis of a-hydroxy phosphonates can also be achieved by asymmetric oxidation with camphorsulfonyl oxaziridines (Scheme 2-60).156 Reasonable yields can usually be obtained. (+)-147a or (+)-147b favors formation of the (S )-product, as would be expected, because these oxidations proceed via a transition state that parallels that previously discussed for the stereoselectivity observed with ketones.157... 

Oxidation of silyl enol ethers. Oxidation of silyl enol ethers to a-hydroxy aldehydes or ketones is usually effected with w-chloroperbenzoic acid (6, 112). This oxidation can also be effected by epoxidation with 2-(phenylsulfonyl)-3-( p-nitrophenyl) oxaziridine in CHC1, at 25-60° followed by rearrangement to a-silyloxy carbonyl compounds, which are hydrolyzed to the a-hydroxy carbonyl compound (BujNF or H,0 + ). Yields are moderate to high. Oxidation with a chiral 2-arene-sulfonyloxaziridine shows only modest enantioselectivity. 

The method is also successful for carboxylic esters167 and N,N-disubstituted amides,168 and can be made enantioselective by the use of a chiral oxaziridine.169 Dimethyldioxirane also oxidizes ketones (through their enolate forms) to a-hydroxy ketones.169 ... 

The enantioselective chemical and enzymatic oxidations of sulfides [86, 94] have also received many interesting developments. High e.e. values have been obtained independently by Kagan [103,104] and Modena [105] via modified Sharpless reagents and by Davis s group [106], which used various chiral oxaziridines. 

Acetalization of thiochroman-3-one gives a 1 1 diastereomeric mixture and subsequent oxidation with Davis reagent, W-(phenylsulfonyl)(3,3-dichlorocamphoryl)oxaziridine, yielded the sulfoxides each with a 4 1 enantioselectivity. Chiral chromatographic separation of the diastereomers preceded isolation of the major enantiomers. (3-Elimination and isomerization of the double bond then produced the individual thiochromene 1-oxide diastereomers. The generation of an a-sulfinyl carbanion effects the cleavage of one of the acetal C-O bonds with the protected diol released in a final ozonolysis step. The stereochemical results indicate that it is the C-O bond syn to the sulfoxide function that is cleaved (Scheme 63) <1996TA29>. 

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