Oxazolines addition reactions

Unsaturated chiral oxazolines have been employed in conjugate addition reactions... 

Chiral Cu(ll)-complexes ofbis-oxazolines as Lewis acids for catalyzed cycloaddition, carbonyl addition, and conjugate addition reactions 99PAC1407. 

A variation of an approach developed by Meyers was used to prepare nifedipine-type 1,4-dihydropyridines 35 from pyridine 34 using an oxazoline-directed aryllithium 1,4-addition reaction <96H(43)2425>. 

In addition to a-additions to isocyanides, copper oxide-cyclohexyl isocyanide mixtures are catalysts for other reactions including olefin dimerization and oligomerization 121, 125, 126). They also catalyze pyrroline and oxazoline formation from isocyanides with a protonic a-hydrogen (e.g., PhCH2NC or EtOCOCHjNC) and olefins or ketones 130), and the formation of cyclopropanes from olefins and substituted chloromethanes 131). The same catalyst systems also catalyze Michael addition reactions 119a). 

Diastereoselective 1,4- and 1,6-addition reactions of lithium amides to chiral naph-thyloxazolines were used by Shimano and Meyers108-110 for the synthesis of novel amino acids. For example, treatment of (S )-2-(l-naphthyl)-4-t-butyloxazoline with lithi-ated l,4-dioxa-8-azaspiro[4.5]decane and iodomethane provided the diastereomerically pure 1,4-addition product with excellent yield cleavage of the heterocyclic rings then gave the desired /3-amino acid (>99% ee/ds equation 32)108,109. In contrast to this, most acyclic lithium amides reacted with these oxazolines under 1,6-addition the products were transformed smoothly to 5-amino acid derivatives (equation 33)110. 

S-Ethenylsulfimines 287 react with amides to yield 2-substituted-oxazolines 28 9 304 reaction proceeds via initial Michael addition of an amide anion to 287 to give 288 that collapses to the oxazoline. The reaction is typically carried out at room temperature or 50 °C in THF, 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME), or even MeCN using NaH as the base. Aryl, heteroaryl, and aliphatic amides can be used and the yields of 289 are modest to excellent (Scheme 8.82). 

Oxazoline-directed aromatic substitution and addition reactions provide synthetic chemists with powerful tools for the construction of complex aromatic compounds. Since the last authoritative review by Meyers, these technologies have matured and found widespread applications in organic synthesis. While there has been somewhat limited methodological research in this area in the intervening years, one particularly exciting new development is the diastereoselective ortho-metalations directed by chiral oxazolines. Sections 8.3.9.1-8.3.9.3 will discuss these new developments as well as new synthetic applications of these reactions. 

Another type of conjugate addition reaction in which bis(oxazoline)-metal complexes have been used is the Michael addition reaction. Early work in this... 

Stereoselective addition to carbonyl groups is a powerful tool in organic synthesis and has received a great deal of attention. Addition to imines can be equally as powerful, but has received much less attention. Denmark and co-workers first introduced the use of bis(oxazoline) ligands in the addition reactions of imines.The most successful ligand has been the modified bu-box ligand 182. This ligand was used both stoichiometrically and catalytically in the reaction between various imines and several alkyllithium species. Selected examples are summarized in Table 9.32 (Fig. 9.54). 

Reviews on stoichiometric asymmetric syntheses M. M. Midland, Reductions with Chiral Boron Reagents, in J. D. Morrison, ed., Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 2, Chap. 2, Academic Press, New York, 1983 E. R. Grandbois, S. I. Howard, and J. D. Morrison, Reductions with Chiral Modifications of Lithium Aluminum Hydride, in J. D. Morrison, ed.. Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 2, Chap. 3, Academic Press, New York, 1983 Y. Inouye, J. Oda, and N. Baba, Reductions with Chiral Dihydropyridine Reagents, in J. D. Morrison, ed., Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 2, Chap. 4, Academic Press, New York, 1983 T. Oishi and T. Nakata, Acc. Chem. Res., 17, 338 (1984) G. Solladie, Addition of Chiral Nucleophiles to Aldehydes and Ketones, in J. D. Morrison, ed., Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 2, Chap. 6, Academic Press, New York, 1983 D. A. Evans, Stereoselective Alkylation Reactions of Chiral Metal Enolates, in J. D. Morrison, ed., Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 3, Chap. 1, Academic Press, New York, 1984. C. H. Heathcock, The Aldol Addition Reaction, in J. D. Morrison, ed., Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 3, Chap. 2, Academic Press, New York, 1984 K. A. Lutomski and A. I. Meyers, Asymmetric Synthesis via Chiral Oxazolines, in J. D. Morrison, ed., Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 3, Chap. 

Lateral lithiation of (d )-4-isopropyl-2-(o-tolyl)oxazoline and reaction with aldehydes provides the addition products 1148 with moderate to good diastereoselectivity. The addition of TMEDA is vital for any diastereoselectivity to be observed. The major (,S,A)-products lactonize faster under acidic conditions providing dihydroisocoumarins 1149 in up to ee 97% (Scheme 286, Table 53) <2005T3289>. Similarly, the addition of laterally metallated o-toluates to chiral aldehydes provides a key dihydroisocoumarin during a total synthesis of AI-77-B <1999J(P1)1083>. 

The outcome of the nitrene addition reaction depends on the type of 7i-bond involved. In contrast to electron deficient olefins [26] and nonpolar olefins forming aziridines, electron rich olefins react with alkoxycarbonyl nitrenes to give oxazolines (Sch. 14) [22]. The same type of cycloaddition reaction leading to the production of five-membered rings has also been observed with nitriles [27] (such as compound 35 in Sch. 14) and isocyanates [28] as illustrated in Sch. 15. 

Jorgensen et al. reported that C2-symmetric bis(oxazoline)-copper(II) complex 25 also acts as chiral Lewis acid catalyst for a reaction of allylic stannane with ethyl glyoxylate [37]. Meanwhile, p-Tol-BINAP-CuCl complex 26 was shown to be a promising chiral catalyst for a catalytic enantioselective allylation of ketones with allyltrimethoxysilane under the influence of the TBAT catalyst [38]. Evans and coworkers have developed (S,S)-Ph-pybox-Sc(OTf)3 complex 27 as a new chiral Lewis acid catalyst and shown that this scandium catalyst promotes enantioselective addition reactions of allenyltrimethylsilanes to ethyl glyoxylate [39]. But, when the silicon substituents become bulkier, nonracemic dihydrofurans are predominantly obtained as products of [3+2] cycloaddition. 

Tridentate salen ligands (10) derived from 1 have given excellent results in the enantiocontrol of the hetero Diels-Alder addition reaction of dienes with aldehydes (eq 7) and in the asymmetric additions of TMS-azide to mc5o-epoxide and trimethylsilyl cyanide to benzaldehyde (up to 85% ee). Phosphino-oxazolines derived from 1 have been employed for the asymmetric control of palladium-catalyzed allylic substitution reactions products of 70-90% ee were obtained. Photolysis of crystalline adducts of enantiomerically pure 1 with prochiral alcohols results in asymmetric inductions of up to 79% in a rare example of a solid-state enantioselective reaction. ... 

Coordination of the oxazolidinone 9 with the zinc complex activated the electrophi-licity of the alkene moiety toward addition of the nucleophilic radicals, but the stereodetermining step was the subsequent addition-fragmentation reaction of the intermediate radical with an allyltin reagent. A transition state XVIII similar to FV was proposed for the bis(oxazoline)-Mg complex-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction reported by Corey [13], As the conformation of the bound a-amidyl radical formed by reaction with tert-butyl radical is s-cis [29a], the back face of the prostereogenic radical in XVni is shielded by one of the phenyl substituents on the oxazoline rings. So, the addition reaction occurred from the front face to the radical intermediate XVIII to give the (/ ) product from the (R,R) ligand 12. 

Sibi et al. [66] reported the first examples of highly enantioselective conjugate amine additions [67] by use of catalytic amounts of a chiral Lewis acid complex. Addition of 0-benzylhydroxyamine 87 (1.1 equiv.) to the pyrazole-derived crotonamide 86 proceeded smoothly in the presence of stoichiometric amounts of the chiral catalyst prepared from the bis(oxazoline) 50 and MgBr2 OEt2 with high enantiomeric excess (96 % ee) (Sch. 37). This conjugate addition reaction was equally effective with catalytic amounts of the chiral Lewis acid (92 % ee with 30 mol % 88 % ee with 10 mol %). A re face amine addition to the s-cis substrate bound to the chiral complex with tetrahedral- or ds-octahedral arrangements XXXII and XXXni accounts for the product stereochemistry observed (Fig. 7). 

Evans et al. recently reported the use of structurally well-defined Sn(II) Lewis acids for the enantioselective aldol addition reactions of a-heterosubstituted substrates [47]. These complexes are readily assembled from Sn(OTf)2 and C2-symmetric bis(oxazoline) ligands. The facile synthesis of these ligands commences with optically active 1,2-diamino alcohols, which are themselves readily available from the corresponding a-amino acids. The Sn(II)-bis(oxazoline) complexes were shown to function optimally as catalysts for enantioselective aldol addition reactions with aldehydes and ketone substrates that are suited to putatively chelate the Lewis acid. For example, use of 10 mol % Sn(II) catalyst, thioacetate, and thiopropionate derived silyl ketene acetals added at -78 °C in dichloromethane to glyoxaldehyde to give hydroxy diesters in superb yields, enantioselectivity, and diastereoselectivity (Eq. 27). The process represents an unusual example wherein 2,3-ant/-aldol adducts are obtained stereoselec-tively. 

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