Phase Michael addition

Michael additions are conjugate 1,4-additions of enolates or amines to a,y9-unsatu-rated carbonyl compounds carried out under basic conditions. Up to now there are only a few examples for the solid-phase Michael addition (Scheme 3.17). 

Ranu, B.C., Guchhait, S.K., Gosh, K. and Patre, A., Construction of bicyclo[2.2.2]octanone systems by microwave-assisted solid phase Michael addition followed by AI2O3-mediated intramolecular aldolisation. 

Combinatorial solid-phase synthetic methodologies have been used extensively in drug development [8]. A new solid-phase synthesis of 2-imidazolidones has been discovered by Goff, based on a domino aminoacylation/Michael addition reaction [9]. Thus, when immobilized amine 10-26 (HMPB-BHA resin) was treated with phenylisocyanate in the presence of triethylamine, a smooth formation of 2-imida-zolidone took place. Acid-catalyzed removal from solid phase provided 10-27 in good yield (Scheme 10.6). 

Chiral monoaza-crown ethers containing glucose units have been applied as phase-transfer catalysts in the Michael addition of 2-nitropropane to a chalcone to give the corresponding adduct in up to 90% ee. (Eq. 4.138).202... 

The first successful results of the asymmetric Michael addition under phase transfer catalyzed conditions were achieved by use of ingeniously designed chiral crown ethers 13 and 52.1441 The 3-keto ester 49 reacted with methyl vinyl ketone by use of 13 to give the Michael product 50 with excellent enantioselectivity but in moderate yield, as shown in Scheme 18. The Michael addition of methyl 2-phenylpropionate 51 to methyl acrylate afforded the diester 53 by use of another crown ether 52 in good yield with good enantioselectivity.1441 Various chiral crown ethers were studied to... 

The two-fold Michael addition of nitroethane to methyl propiolate in the presence of potassium fluoride and the phase-transfer catalyst tetrabutylammonium chloride leads to the diester 432. Treatment of nitroethane with methyl propiolate under these conditions, followed by methyl vinyl ketone, leads to the mixed adduct 433460. 

Michael addition of methylene imines with alkenes under solid Iiquid two-phase conditions provides a route to substituted a-amino acids [26, 27] (Scheme 6.22). When ethyl glycine is (V-protected with (S)-menthone, C-alkylation under soliddiquid... 

The stereoselective Michael addition of the anion derived from diethyl acetyl-aminomalonate with chalcone has been found to be most effective under soliddiquid two-phase conditions in the absence of an added solvent [62]. For optimum overall conversion and enantiomeric excess (56% with 60% ee), A-benzyl-V-methyl-... 

The Michael addition has attracted enormous attention as one of the most important G-G bond-forming reactions in solution-phase organic synthesis. In general. 

Reaction of the regioisomers of tetrahydrophosphinine oxide (51) with Na0H-H20-CHCl3 under phase-transfer conditions was found to afford tetrahydrophosphepine oxides (52) through an unexpected path involving isomerization of (51) and cyclopropanation via Michael addition of CCls. (Scheme 21). 

Fig. 8 Oiganocatalytic Michael-addition Energy profiles of paths A and B, both leading to (t )-configurated product, as obtained from gas phase calculations (B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)// B3LYP/6-310(d))...

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A chiral phase transfer catalyst was dissolved in ionic liquid media for the enantioselective Michael reaction of dimethyl malonate with l,3-diphenylprop-2-en-l-one with K2CO3 203). The phase-transfer catalyst was a chiral quininium bromide (Scheme 20). The reaction proceeded rapidly with good yield and good enantioselectivity at room temperature in all three ionic liquids investigated, [BMIM]PF6, [BMIM]BF4 and [BPy]BF4. In the asymmetric Michael addition, the enantioselectivity or the reaction in [BPy]Bp4 was the same as in conventional organic solvents. 

The two most commonly used types of allyl alcohol linker are 4-hydroxycrotonic acid derivatives (Entry 1, Table 3.7) and (Z)- or ( )-2-butene-l, 4-diol derivatives (Entries 2 and 3, Table 3.7). The former are well suited for solid-phase peptide synthesis using Boc methodology, but give poor results when using the Fmoc technique, probably because of Michael addition of piperidine to the a, 3-unsaturated carbonyl compound [167]. Butene-l,4-diol derivatives, however, are tolerant to acids, bases, and weak nucleophiles, and are therefore suitable linkers for a broad range of solid-phase chemistry. 

One problem that may be encountered with this type of reaction is related to the fact that in solid-phase synthesis reagents generally have to be used in excess. This can occasionally lead to side reactions, ff, for instance, a resin-bound aldehyde is condensed under basic conditions with excess ketone, the resulting enone might undergo Michael addition with an additional equivalent of ketone (Figure 5.10). For some of these enones, the Wittig reaction may represent a superior synthetic method [75]. 

The reaction is carried out in vapour phase (250°C) using a flow system (see methods section). This procedure turned out to be essential in order to mantain the hydrogen transfer as the main reaction pathway. A batch experiment carried out in an autoclave actually showed a wide range of condensation products besides some saturated ketone [6]. Reactions of ketones over oxide catalysts can lead to a variety of products due inter alia to aldol condensation, intramolecular dehydration and intermolecular disproportionation [16]. However, the presence of a good hydrogen donor such as a secondary alcohol and vapour phase conditions favour the transfer hydrogenation as the major reaction [16,17]. In our reaction conditions, products attributable to crotonic condensations and subsequent 1,4 Michael addition [18] were observed by g.l.c.-m.s. (Table 1). 

Keywords Michael addition, Amine, Phase transfer catalyst, Phenoxide, Crown ether,... 

Keywords 2-phenylcyclohexanone, a,/ -unsaturated ketone, Michael addition, phase transfer catalys, 1,5-dicarbonyl compound... 

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