2-Oxazolidinone from 1,35-tris

The cycloberbine 339 derived from coptisine (65) was reduced with lithium aluminum tri-tert-butoxyhydride to afford the trans-alcohol 340 along with a small amount of the cis-alcohol (Scheme 62). Treatment of 340 with ethyl chloroformate effected C-8—N bond cleavage and simultaneous oxyfunc-tionalization at C-8 with the desired stereochemistry to produce the oxazolidinone 341. This was hydrolyzed with potassium hydroxide and then underwent N-methylation to give ( )-ochrobirine (343). Similarly, the ochrobirine analog 344 was also obtained from berberine (15) (171). 

Significant progress has been made in the development of asymmetric syntheses of the biologically important 3-amino-p-lactams from homochiral ketene precursors.High levels of diastereoselection have been observed with chiral 1,3-oxazolidinones. Thus (4/ )-phenyloxazolidylacetyl chloride, readily prepared from (S)-phenylglycine, reacts with N-benzylaldimines in the presence of tri-ethylamine to yield die cis 3-lactams in high diastereoisomeric excesses (Scheme IS). ... 

From a non-c ohydrate precursor, Davis and Qi achieved the asymmetric synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-fluoro- iylo-D-pyranose (9) (Figure 7) and 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-lyxo-L-pyranose (13). TTie key reaction was the highly diastereoselective fluorination of a chiral enolate using the electrophilic fluorinating agent, N-fluoro(benzenesulfonimide) (NFSi). In another study by Davis (14), the use of a chiral oxazolidinone adjuvant and fluorination with NFSi led to the chiral fluorohydrin 10 (>97% ee), which was oxidized by the Dess-Martin periodinane procedure to the non-racemic a- fluoroaldehyde 11 (94% ee). Conversion of 11 in four steps provided l,2,3-tri-0-acetyl-4-deoxy-4-fluoro-D-arabinopyranose (12) as a 1 1 mixture of anomers which could not be separated by flash chromatography. 

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