Oxazolidinone derivatives, catalytic asymmetric

With Tartrate-Derived Chiral 1,4-Diol/Ti Complexes A catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction is promoted by the use of a chiral titanium catalyst prepared in situ from (Pr O TiC and a tartrate-derived (2.R,3.R)-l,l>4,4-tetraphenyl-2,3-0-(l-phenylethylidene)-l,2,3,4-butanetetrol. This chiral titanium catalyst, developed by Narasaka, has been successfully executed with oxazolidinone derivatives of 3-borylpropenoic acids as P-hydroxy acrylic acid equivalents [40] (Eq. 8A.21). The resulting chiral adduct can be utilized for the first asymmetric total synthesis of a highly oxygenated sesquiterpene, (-i-)-Paniculide. 

An important feature of this reaction is that in contrast to most other catalytic asymmetric Mannich reactions, a-unbranched aldehydes are efficient electrophiles in the proline-catalyzed reaction. In addition, with hydroxy acetone as a donor, the corresponding syn-l, 2-aminoalcohols are furnished with high chemo-, regio-, diastereo-, and enantioselectivities. The produced ketones 14 can be further converted to 4-substituted 2-oxazolidinones 17 and /i-aminoalcohol derivatives 18 in a straightforward manner via Baeyer-Villiger oxidation (Scheme 9.4) [5]. 

Narasaka has demonstrated that TADDOL-Ti dichloride prepared from TADDOL and Cl2Ti(OPr )2 in the presence of MS 4A acts as an efficient catalyst in asymmetric catalytic Diels-Alder reactions with oxazolidinone derivatives of acrylates, a results in extremely high enantioselectivity (Sch. 45) [112]. Narasaka reported an intramolecular version of the Diels-Alder reaction, the product of which can be transformed into key intermediates for the syntheses of dihydrocompactin and dihydromevinolin (Sch. 46) [113]. Seebach and Chapuis/Jurczak [114] independently reported asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions promoted by chiral TADDOL- and 3,3 -diphenyl BINOL-derived titanium alkoxides. Other types of chiral diol ligands were also explored by Hermann [115] and Oh [116]. 

A small number of enantiomerically pure Lewis acid catalysts have been investigated in an effort to develop a catalytic asymmetric process. Initial work in this area was carried out by Narasaka and coworkers using the titanium complex derived from diol (8.216) in the cycloaddition of electron-deficient oxazolidinones such as (8.217) with ketene dithioacetal (8.218), alkenyl sulfides and alkynyl sulfides. Cyclic alkenes can be used in this reaction and up to 73% ee has been obtained in the [2- -2] cycloaddition ofthioacetylene (8.220) and derivatives with2-methoxycarbonyl-2-cyclopenten-l-one (8.221) usingthe copper catalyst generated with bis-pyridine (8.222). Furthermore, up to 99% ee has been obtained in the [2-1-2] cycloaddition of norbornene with alkynyl esters using rhodium/Hs-BINAP catalysts. This reaction is not restricted to the use of transition metal-based Lewis... 

Several successful chiral catalysts have been reported so far for catalytic asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrones with oxazolidinone derivatives (Figure 16.3) [27a,b,c] Recently, Kiindig et al. [27] had reported that the single coordination site Fe and Ru transition-metal Lewis acids can efficiently promote enantioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of nitrones with a,p-unsaturated aldehydes and represent a rapid access to substrates of high synthetic potential. The Fe catalyst (81) was found to be an excellent catalyst for 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions between methacrolein and nitrone (83) (Scheme 16.24, Table 16.5). Isox-azolidine (84a) was formed as a single region- and diastereoisomer in excellent... 

Vinyl-substituted 2-oxazolidinones 208 were synthesised by a catalytic <02JOC974> and also asymmetric intramolecular aminopalladation of readily available derivatives of (Z)-2-buten-l,4-diol 207 <02JA12>. 

In the past Lewis acid-catalyzed [4+2] cycloaddition reactions of chiral alkyl acrylates have been systematically studied. Chiral auxiliaries derived from camphor, menthol and amino acids or from carbohydrates have been developed. Stereochemical and theoretical aspects of these chiral inductors have been intensively reviewed (see. Chapter 6). Asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions of chiral acrylamides derived from Ca-symmetrical secondary amines lead selectively to the cycloadducts in the presence of Lewis acids such as AICI3. In reactions of chiral auxiliaries derived from (iS)-proline and (iS)-prolinol excellent endo/exo selectivities and diastereoselectivities were obtained in the presence of catalytic amounts of Et2AlCl or TiCL. Cycloadducts of chiral crotonoyl derivatives derived from oxazolidinones 62, sultam 63 or for example (S)-lactate IS were obtained with high selectivities in the presence of Lewis acids such as Et2AICl. 

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