Oxazolidine aldehyde

A polymer-supported synthesis of an array of a chirally pure (3-lactams in high purity has been demonstrated [129] from a resin-bound chiral oxazolidine aldehyde. Application of resin-bound chiral oxazolidine aldehyde equivalent was explored... 

Scheme 24 Application of chiral oxazolidine aldehyde in the synthesis of P-lactam library...

A polymer-supported oxazolidine aldehyde 226 was developed for asymmetric chemistry <02JOC6646> as well as a soluble polymer-bound Evan s chiral auxiliary <02TA333> and 3,5-disubstituted oxazolidin-2-one 227 anchored on a solid phase <02TL8327>. 

The majority of reported solid-phase combinatorial syntheses of the lactam core utilize a [2-i-2] cycloaddition reaction of ketenes with resin-bound imines [33-41]. A further development of the Staudinger reaction was reported by Mata and coworkers using Mukaiyama s reagent [42]. In addition, a stereoselective synthesis of chi-rally pure P-lactams has been performed as a first utilization of polymer-supported oxazolidine aldehydes [43]. Other strategies include an ester enolate-imine condensation [44], an Hg(OCOCF3)2-mediated intramolecular cydization [45], and Miller hydroxamate synthesis [46]. Because of the variability derived from the scaffold synthesis, not many attempts have been made to derivatize the resin-bound lactam template [47]. One of the most detailed descriptions of a versatile (3-lactam synthesis on a resin employed amino acids tethered as esters on Sasrin resin [48]. 

Preparation of the chiral oxazolidine-aldehyde 64 from D-serine 59 required various steps, including conversion into the silyl ether 60, reaction with ketone 61 to provide oxazolidine silyl ether 62 and subsequent desilylation of the tert-butyldiphenylsiloxy group. Oxidation of the hydroxy functionality and hydrogeno-lytic cleavage of the benzyl ester then gave the corresponding aldehyde 63. The acid functionality of 63 was then coupled to aminomethylated Merrifield resin (Scheme 12.26). 

Scheme 12.26 Preparation of a chiral oxazolidine aldehyde (64) on solid support.

Thermolysis of the aziridine (446) in the presence of diphenylketene gave a mixture of the pyrrolidone (447 minor product) and the oxazolidine (448 major product). In this instance the preferential addition to the C=0 bond is explained in terms of steric effects (72CC199). Similar addition to diphenylacetaldehyde takes place with the same orientation and the oxazolidine (448a) was obtained. When the reaction of the aziridine with the aldehyde was carried out in the presence of hydrogen selenide a selenazolidine was obtained (72BSB295). 

Aroylaziridines (32) and aromatic aldehydes react to give oxazolidines (33), the stereochemistry of which suggests reaction very largely through the trans-azomethine ylide, irrespective of the aziridine configuration (70JCS(C)2383). 

An oxazolidine was used to protect the carbonyl group in an a,/3-unsaturated aldehyde during reduction of the carbon-carbon double bond by H2/Raney Ni. It... 

Several blocked diamines or amino-alcohols are commercially available. The aldimine is an aldehyde-blocked diamine. The ketimine is a ketone-blocked diamine. The oxazolidine is a five-membered ring containing oxygen and nitrogen. The oxazolidine ring shown below is an aldehyde-blocked amino alcohol. The basic synthetic concepts of an aldimine, a ketimine, and an oxazolidine are shown below ... 

A variety of 1,3-oxazolidines have been used as chiral formyl anion equivalents for addition to aldehydes. Thus, for example, reaction of N-protected norephedrine with Bu3Sn-CH(OEt)2 gives 48, and transmetallation with BuLi followed by addition of benzaldehyde affords the expected adduct 49. The selectivity at the newly formed alcohol center is poor, but the situation can be salvaged by oxidation and re-reduction, which affords the product 50 with >95% d.e. It is then a simple matter to hydrolyze off the oxazolidine, although the resulting hydroxyaldehydes... 

Among the many chiral Lewis acid catalysts described so far, not many practical catalysts meet these criteria. For a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes, Corey s tryptophan-derived borane catalyst 4, and Yamamoto s CBA and BLA catalysts 3, 7, and 8 are excellent. Narasaka s chiral titanium catalyst 31 and Evans s chiral copper catalyst 24 are outstanding chiral Lewis acid catalysts of the reaction of 3-alkenoyl-l,2-oxazolidin-2-one as dienophile. These chiral Lewis acid catalysts have wide scope and generality compared with the others, as shown in their application to natural product syntheses. They are, however, still not perfect catalysts. We need to continue the endeavor to seek better catalysts which are more reactive, more selective, and have wider applicability. 

An entry to. yyrt-2-methoxy-3-hydroxycarboxylic acids is also opened using similar methodology. Thus the norephedrine derived (4/ ,5S)-3-(2-methoxy-l-oxoethyl)-4-methyl-5-phenyl-1,3-oxazolidine-2-one 23105a, as well as the phenylalanine derived (4S)-4-benzyl-3-(2-methoxy-l-oxoethyl)-l,3-oxazolidin-2-one 25105b, can be added to aldehydes via the boron enolates to give, after oxidative workup, the adducts in a stereoselective manner (d.r. 96 4, main product/sum of all others). Subsequent methanolysis affords the methyl esters. 

Use of the valine derived (4S )-3-acetyl-4-isopropyl-1,3-oxazolidine (8)92, the C2-symmetric reagents (2.5,55)-l-acetyl-2,5-bissubstituted pyrrolidine 994, or the doubly deprotonated acetyl urea /V-acetyl- V..V -bis[(.S)-l-phcnylethyl]urea (10), also does not lead to sufficient induced stereoselectivity combined with acceptable chemical yield. When the acetyl urea enolate is reacted with aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes, the diastereomeric adducts (ratios ranging from 1 1 to 3 1) may be separated by column chromatography to give ultimately both enantiomers of the 3-hydroxy acids in 99% ee110. 

Chiral oxazolidines 6, or mixtures with their corresponding imines 7, are obtained in quantitative yield from acid-catalyzed condensation of methyl ketones and ( + )- or ( )-2-amino-l-phcnylpropanol (norephedrine, 5) with azeotropic removal of water. Metalation of these chiral oxazolidines (or their imine mixtures) using lithium diisopropylamide generates lithioazaeno-lates which, upon treatment with tin(II) chloride, are converted to cyclic tin(II) azaenolates. After enantioselective reaction with a variety of aldehydes at 0°C and hydrolysis, ft-hydroxy ketones 8 are obtained in 58-86% op4. 

Reaction of the chiral (45,5R)-oxazolidine 9. obtained from 3-pentanone and (-)-2-amino-l-phenylpropanol, with aldehydes gives predominantly a H -aldol adducts of high enantiomeric purity. The corresponding spn-adducts, formed in low enantiomeric excess, are isolated from the diaslereomeric mixture by chromatography 5. 

Oxazolidines 130 were obtained by reaction of (-)ephedrine with aldehydes under microwave irradiation and in the presence of molecular sieves in order to remove the water formed in the reaction (Scheme 46) [84,85]. As expected. 

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