Pinanediol boronate

In this section, the boronate esters have been named throughout as pinanediol boronic esters. The correct Chemical Abstracts name of, for example, 3, is 3a.S,[2(R ),3aa,4/ ,6/ .7aa] -2-(l-chloroalkyl)-hexahydro-3a,5,5-trimethyl-4,6-methano-l,3,2-benzodioxaborole. 

S)-Pinanediol boronic esters 2 with (dichloromethyl)lithium produce (aS)-a-chloro boronic esters 3. The first experiments provided diastereomerie ratios in the range 75 25 to 98 2. The best results (>94 6) were obtained with phenyl, ethenyl, or 1-phenylethyl attached to the boron atom39 40. The diastereomerie ratios were estimated from the rotations of esters of derived secondary alcohols. It was subsequently found that zinc chloride catalysis of the rearrangement of the intermediate borate complexes 2 improved the yields, usually to 85-95%, with diastereo-meric ratios often >99 1 when R1 = alkyl, as shown by NMR measurements15,43. 

Table 2. Reaction of Pinanediol Boronic Esters 1 with (Dichloro-methyljlithium With and Without Zinc Chloride...

Addition of a wide range of boronic acids [RB(OH)2] or esters [RB(OR )2] to the pinanediols gives the very stable pinanediol boronic esters. For example, propylboronic acid (available from the addition of propylmagnesium bromide to trimethyl borate followed by acid hydrolysis) and the (s) pinanediol combine to give a homochiral boronic ester as shown in Equation B6.3. 

Figure B6.1 depicts the construction of a chiral centre on an (s) pinanediol boronic ester. Initially LiCHCl2 is added to the substrate A to give a...

A second peptide coupling employing 2-pyrazine carboxylic acid (24) and TBTU affords 25. Finally the boronic ester moiety is removed under acidic conditions using isobutyl boronic acid. This regenerates pinanediol boronic ester 16, which can be used in another batch run of the process. Crystallization from ethyl acetate gives bortezomib in its anhydride (boroxine) form 26. The overall yield for the route is 35% with a typical purity of > 99% w/w. 

The two contiguous stereocenters present in the aldehyde 155 were installed in a straightforward manner and with an extremely high stereoselectivity using the dihalomethyllithium insertion method of Matteson (Scheme 3) [157]. The (-i-)-pinanediol boronic ester derivative... 

Boronic acids from pinanediol boronates. The liberation of a boronic acid from its esters is sometimes hampered by the favorable equilibrium toward the latter. The problem is solved by destroying the diol, and one method is to use NaI04. 

Scheme 8.3 General assembly of asymmetric carbon chains via pinanediol boronic esters. Structures 13-20 are drawn as slightly distorted planar projections of a three-dimensional computer model of the rigid terpenoid unit. For detailed reaction conditions, see Scheme 8.1.

A limitation of pinanediol boronic esters (15) results from the difference between the two diastereotopic faces of the trigonal boron atom. The sequential double di-astereodifferentiation observed with chiral directors having C2-symmetry is not possible. Borate anion 16 derived from 15 rearranges to (a-chloroalkyl)boronic esters 17 and 18 in a ratio that usually exceeds 50 1 (Scheme 8.3) [12]. Alkylmetallic reagents attack 17 from the less hindered side to form 19, in which the chloride to be displaced is not in a comparable steric environment to that in 16 (28). The major diastereomer 20 is produced in about the same proportion as its precursor 17 (Scheme 8.3). 

One of the limitations of (a-chloroalkyl)boronic ester chemistry has been that the chiral directors are difficult to cleave from boron, and boronic esters are inert in some of the useful transformations of trialkylboranes and alkyldihaloboranes. The vigorous conditions that will remove pinanediol from any pinanediol boronic ester, treatment with boron trichloride [12], leave the pinanediol as tarry ruins and with it any sensitive functionality on the boronic ester. The much milder cleavage by transfer of pinanediol or other chiral diol to phenylboronic acid in a two-phase system works well if the boronic acid to be isolated is water soluble [26]. Other cleavage methods include reduction of pinanediol boronic esters with lithium aluminum hydride or alkylation to borinic ester intermediates [73]. 

Boronic esters (3) can be homologated to a-chloroboronic esters (4) (Scheme 2) replacement of the chlorine atom by carbon nucleophiles, such as Grignard reagents, and oxidation of the carbon-boron bond gives a new route to alcohols/ If the sequence is performed with (+)- or (-)-pinanediol boronic esters it can be made into a directed chiral synthesis of alcohols, as illustrated in Scheme 3 from phenyl boronic acid the homologation steps were found to occur with diastereoselectivities in excess of 90%, the chlorine replacement proceeds with inversion, and the oxidative step with retention of configuration. 

Matteson et al have studied the homologation of boronic esters with dichloromethyl lithium. The stereoselectivity of the reaction involving pinanediol boronic esters is decreased due to epimerization of the homologated product by co-produced lithium chloride. Assembling the proposed intermediate by the reaction of the dichloromethyl boronic ester with an alkyl lithium does not give the same enantioselectivity as with the previous procedure. This was thought to be associated with kinetic selectivity in the attack by the nucleophiles R and CHClJ. 

Matteson DS, Sadhu KM, Peterson ML. 99% ChiraUy selective synthesis via pinanediol boronic esters insect pheromones, diols, and an amino alcohol. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1986 108 81(R819. 

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