Oxazolines lateral

A-2-Oxazoline-5-one (2091 when treated with thioacetic acid yields the corresponding thiazoline-5-one (210) (Scheme 107) (458. 461). These results have been questioned recently (365) however, it appears in the later report that a large excess of thioacetic acid was used instead o-f the stoichiometric amount previously used. 

Chiral oxazolines were the first ehiral auxiliaries used for asymmetrie enolate alkylations. Subsequent studies led to the development of a number of other ehiral auxiliaries (34-38) ineluding those reported by Evans, Myers, Enders, Sehollkopf, and others, whieh are now widely used in asymmetrie synthesis. Although these new auxiliaries frequently provide higher yields and enantioseleetivities than the oxazolines originally developed by Meyers, the pioneering work of Meyers laid the groundwork for these later studies. 

The aziridine-2-carboxaldehyde 56 can also serve as synthon for the synthesis of sphingosines, which are important biomembrane constituents [64]. One possible route involves the addition of an alanate to the aldehyde. In a later stage of this synthetic plan the aziridine can be opened, either via the intermediacy of an oxazoline or directly with dilute acid. Unfortunately, the reaction of aldehyde 56 with a vinylalanate has a poor diastereoselectivity of 3 2. Therefore, an alternative approach was considered, namely one involving the addition of a vinylzinc reagent to the aldehyde thereby employing our N-tritylaziridinediphenyl-methanol 51 as the chiral catalyst. Gratifyingly, only one diastereomer was obtained. Reductive removal of the trityl function, acetylation of the hydroxy... 

A related planar chiral Co-based oxazoline palladacycle COP-X (46) was later found to be of higher synthetic utility as it permitted the use of benzimidates, [62] as well as allylic trifluoro- [63] and trichloroacetimidates [64, 65]. 46 was found to be superior to its ferrocene analogue 41 [61] in a number of aspects such as ease of... 

In a similar approach Riihe et al. [279] reported the preparation ofpoly(2-oxazoline) brushes by the grafting onto as well as grafting from method. For LCSIP of 2-ethyl-2-oxazolines silane functionalized undecane tosylate was first prepared and then immobilized on the substrate surface. SIP resulted in PEOx layers with thickness close to 30 nm. PEOx brushes were prepared by chemisorption of PEOx disulfides onto gold substrates. Preliminary static and dynamic swelling experiments are reported for these brushes. However, later observations [243] contradicted these findings. 

The preparation of carbonyl-lr—NHC complexes (Scheme 3.1) and the study of their average CO-stretching frequencies [7], have provided some of the earliest experimental information on the electron-donor power of NHCs, quantified in terms of Tolman s electronic parameter [8]. The same method was later used to assess the electronic effects in a family of sterically demanding and rigid N-heterocyclic carbenes derived from bis-oxazolines [9]. The high electron-donor power of NHCs should favor oxidative addition involving the C—H bonds of their N-substituents, particularly because these substituents project towards the metal rather than away, as in phosphines. Indeed, NHCs have produced a number of unusual cyclometallation processes, some of which have led to electron-deficient... 

In a recent modification of the second synthesis (50S) effected for fluvibactin (45) an o-xylene protection group was proposed (reaction of 2,3-dihydroxy-benzoic acid methyl ester with 1,2-di(bromomethyl)benzene) which could be removed later by hydrogenolysis. The formation of the oxazoline ring from protected DHB-L-threonine methyl ester was achieved with Mo(VI) catalysts (e.g. (NH4)2Mo04) without affecting the chiral centers. Derivatization of the primary amino groups of norspermidine with the protected DHB methyl ester was catalyzed by Sb(OC2115)3. 

Asymmetric allylic oxidation and benzylic oxidation (Kharasch-PSosnovsky reaction) are important synthetic strategies for constructing chiral C—O bonds via C—H bond activation.In the mid-1990s, the asymmetric Kharasch-Sosnovsky reaction was first studied by using chiral C2-symmetric bis(oxazoline)s. " Later various chiral ligands, based mainly on oxazoline derivatives and proline derivatives, were used in such asymmetric oxidation. Although many efforts have been made to improve the enantioselective Kharasch-Sosnovsky oxidation reaction, most cases suffered from low to moderate enantioselectivities or low reactivities. 

Although oxazolines can be used as auxiliaries and later removed they have also been retained in target molecules which have then been used as ligands for a variety of asymmetric transformations. Ferrocenes carrying oxazoline and phosphine coordination sites ° ° " , oxazoline and amine coordination sites, and ferrocene bis-oxazoli-nes have been synthesized by the method of Scheme 141. 

Oxazolines , imidazolines and tetrazoles can all be laterally lithiated. Oxazolines have been used in this regard rather less than for ortholithiation (Scheme 200). 

The major problems with industrial-scale applications of this procedure are the use of expensive reagents, the required chromatographic separation of the side products and the competitive formation of oxazolines. The use of carbamate protecting groups avoided the oxazoline problem and is usually preferred, since the resulting protected 3-amino-substituted /3-lactams 150 can later be deprotected and reacylated. 

Later, the oxazolines 25 were examined to study the effects of matched/mismatched combinations of stereogenic centers on catalyzed aryl transfer reactions to aldehydes. Of these mandelic acid-derived catalysts, 25b gave the best results in terms of enantioselectivity (up to 35% ee), while diastereomer (l ,S)-25b proved to be superior to (S,S)-25b with respect to catalyst activity [29]. With both compounds, the absolute configuration of the product was determined by the oxazo-line moiety. 

In the mid-seventies, with the development of generally applicable stoichiometric asymmetric syntheses, especially the Meyers oxazoline methodology as the first one, the scientific community began to believe that asymmetric synthesis really worked resulting in an explosive growth of this new field. Later on, and mainly driven by the fact that the biological activity of enantiomers is usually different, dozens of new chemical companies were founded all over the world in a newly created area called chirotechnology . 

Evans, and later j0rgensen, studied the counterion effect of these Cj-symmetric bis(oxa-zoline)/Cu(II) complexes, and found that the counterion structure dramatically affected the catalytic efficiency, and SbFg- was the best among the anions examined (SbF6>PF6>OTf>BF4) [27,28] (Eq. 8A.15). This cationic bis(oxazoline)/Cu(II) catalyst has been successfully applied to asymmetric synthesis of enr-A1 -tetrahydrocannabinol [29] and enf-shikimic acid [30]. 

Substituted 3,4-dihydroisocoumarins (61) have been prepared enantioselectively by two diastereoselective processes addition of aldehydes (RCHO) to laterally lithi-ated chiral 2-(0-tolyl)oxazolines, followed by lactonization.254... 

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 existence of centres with non-ionic character has already been suspected in studies of polymerizations which are supposed to proceed on carbocat-ions the theory of pseudo-cationic polymerization was proposed [137] (see Chap. 3, Sect. 3.1). The transformation of an ion pair to a covalent compound will evidently be easier for acid centres with heteroatoms, i.e. in heterocycle or vinyl ether polymerizations. Propagation on covalent bonds has actually been observed, first in the studies of oxazoline polymerization [138] and later even with THF [139, 140] and with other monomers (see, for example, refs. 131, 141 and 142). 

So far [234], we have limited ourselves to unreactive neutral functional groups following the historic evolution in functionalisation of NHC that confined itself to tertiary amines like pyridine [235], ester, keto and ether functionalities [236], oxazolines [237] and phosphines [238], We will later see that recently researchers have discovered the suitability of stronger nucleophiles such as alcoholates [239] and secondary amides [240], But, as in phosphine chemistry the golden rule of functionalised carbenes is to introduce the functional group first and generate the carbene (phosphine) last [237],... 

In its utilization of acetonitrile, the oxazoline synthesis shown in Scheme 56 resembles a Ritter reaction.The procedure is convenient, but yields are variable the pyrolysis gives starting alkene plus acetamide as by-products. Another oxazoline synthesis and subsequent conversion to a cif-amino alcohol is discussed later (Scheme 85). A recent y-hydroxy-a-amino acid synthesis incorporates the following type of transformation (Scheme 57).If a three-day equilibration with anhydrous HBr was introduced iMtween stages i and ii, almost pure trans product was obtained. The paper has many usefol references. Yet another modified Ritter reaction is shown in Scheme 58. ... 

Another approach to enantiomerically pure planar chiral azaferrocenes involves 2-lithiation of (367) followed by addition of (-)-menthyl-(5 ) — jo-toluenesulfinate. The diastereomeric sulfoxides thus obtained are chromatograph-ically separable, and treatment of each diastereomer with t-BuLi produces an enantiomerically pure planar chiral anion that may be trapped with an electrophile (Scheme 98). Finally, in order to obviate the need for performing a resolution or a chromatographic separation, chiral ligand-mediated enantioselective deprotonations have been investigated. Lithiation of (367) in the presence of (-)-sparteine followed by addition of an electrophile gives the 2-substituted azaferrocene in good enantioselectivities (Scheme 99). However, lateral lithiation of (370) mediated by 5-valine-derived bis(oxazoline) (371) provides planar chiral products with excellent enantios-electivity. 

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