Oxazolidinone-based drugs

The oxazolidinone-based compounds are the most common (Figure 23.1), and examples include antibacterial,27-28 adhesion receptor antagonists,29-30 tumor necrosis factor inhibitors,31 platelet aggregation inhibitors,32 antimigraine drugs,33 and monoamine oxidase inhibitors.3435 In one case, an oxazolidinone has been used as a transdermal drug delivery agent.36... 

FIGURE 2 Important examples of oxazolidinone-based (pro)drugs. 

In any treatment of auxiliary-based alkylations (as well as aldol additions, enolate oxidations, Mannich and Michael reactions), clearly, the carboximide enolates pioneered by the group of Evans are the center of attention. Developed in the early 1980, JV-acyl derivatives of oxazolidinones 45-47 (Scheme 4.9) became the epitomes of chiral auxiliaries [7,28] with countless applications in natural products and drug syntheses. The enantiomeric oxazolidinones (S)- and (R)-47 derived from the corresponding enantiomer of phenylalanine have the advantage that, when used for various transformations, the corresponding products have a higher tendency to crystallization and were shortly later added [29] to this collection of classics. 

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