Piperidines configuration

Substituent effects (electronegativity, configuration) influence these coupling constants in four-, five- and seven-membered ring systems, sometimes reversing the cis-tmns relationship so that other NMR methods of structure elucidation, e.g. NOE difference spectra (see Section 2.3.5), are needed to provide conclusive results. However, the coupling constants of vicinal protons in cyclohexane and its heterocyclic analogues (pyranoses, piperidines) and also in alkenes (Table 2.10) are particularly informative. 

Inhibition of configuration-retaining glycosidases by lactones, piperidines, and tetrazoles 99AG(E)750. 

Aminobutenones of Z-configuration having at least one hydrogen atom attached to the amino group (80MI1) condense with aldehydes (EtOH, piperidine acetate, 25°C, 12 h) in 2 1 ratio to form 1,4-dihydropyiidine derivatives 290 (50NKZ1061). 

Another class of configurationally stable a-mctallo amines is derived from the N-tert-butoxy-carbonyl-protected piperidines 32 and 3516, l7. Addition of the lithiated piperidines to aldehydes leads to mixtures of the anti- and. yin-diastereoiners. Although the diastereoselectivity is low, the diastereomers can be readily separated by chromatography since the. vyn-isomer is often in a cyclized form 34. The stereochemistry of the products obtained from piperidines 32 are consistent with an equatorial a-lithiation followed by addition to the aldehyde with retention of configuration. However, with piperidine 35 selective axial lithiation is observed. 

Cervinka has employed these reagents in the asymmetric reduction of im-monium salts (49,50) and imines (51). The reduction of 2-substituted jV-methyl-A -tetrahydropyridinium perchlorates (10) with (— )-menthol-LAH in ether or THF led to optically active piperidine derivatives (eq. [10]). The optical purity obtained for the Pr" derivative was 12%. In the case of R = Me and Pr" the configuration of the predominant enantiomer was shown to be S. The (-)-menthol-LAH reagent was similarly shown to reduce l-methyl-2-alkyl-A -di-hydropyrrolinium perchlorates (11) to optically active pyrrolidine derivatives (eq. [11]). The optical yield could be calculated only for R = CH2Ph, and was only 6% (/ enantiomer) obtained with a 1 1 (— )-menthoi-LAH reagent. With 2 1 or 3 1 molar ratios of menthol LAH, the optical yield decreased. The... 

The addition reactions of nucleophilic and electrophilic reagents to optically active a, /3-unsaturated sulfoxides have also been found to proceed in an asymmetric way. Addition of piperidine to chiral (i )-cis-propenyl p-tolyl sulfoxide 309 affords a 87 13 mixture of diastereomeric sulfoxides 310 (318). The configuration at the 3-carbon atom of the predominant diastereomer (i yS )-310 was determined by means of chemical correlation starting from optically... 

In the course of our synthetic efforts, we discovered a new, unnatural conformational isomer of the VBL piperidine ring (see Chapter 2, this volume, for details). This compound is inactive with the microtubule system in vitro and is poorly cytotoxic to cultured tumor cells (Fig. 5b). Therefore, the functional determinism of the C-20 position of VBL-like molecules mediates reactions, as yet unknown, that are dependent on the binary alkaloid structure and on the natural stereochemical configuration at C-16 and C-14 as well as on the conformation of the cleavamine moiety. 

There is good evidence that the a-forms (X, R = R = Me) have a cis and the 3 a trans 5,9-dimethyl configuration with respect to the hydroaromatic ring B (with the piperidine ring as reference, (a- is the trans and the cis isomer). The rates of quaternization of a- are faster than those of the -isomers, reaction in the latter being hindered by the 9-methyl group (cf. (XI) and (XII) in addition,... 

In 2000, Chamboumier and Gawley reported the failure of a conformationaUy locked 2-(tributylstannyl)piperidine to transmetalate when the 2-(tributylstannyl) moiety of a 4-fert-butylpiperidine is equatorial, Sn/Li exchange is facile, but when the 2-tributylstannyl group is axial, transmetalation fails (compare Figure 3d,i). In other words, in these conformationaUy rigid piperidines, there appears to be a configurational requirement for transmetalation the nitrogen atom lone pair has to be synclinal to the adjacent carbon-tin bond for transmetalation to succeed. 

Lithio-Af-methylpiperidines and -pyrrolidines are chemically and configurationally stable for at least 45 min at —40 °C in THF/TMEDA. Structural studies in THF showed that the piperidine is a bridged monomer in both racemic and enantiopure form, whereas the pyrrolidine is a homochiral dimer in both enantiopure and racemic forms. The difference in aggregation state does not appreciably affect the temperatures at which racemization is avoided. These A-methyl heterocycles are considerably more robust than the... 

These organolithiums were also available in nonracemic form, which allowed the evaluation of the steric course of these reactions. Scheme 9 summarizes the steric course for pyrrolidines, and Scheme 10 for piperidines. In the discussion that follows, it is assumed that the transmetalation from tin to lithium takes place with retention of configuration at... 

Comparison of the configuration of the stannane with the prodncts of reaction reveals that primary alkyl halides that are not benzyhc or a to a carbonyl react with inversion at the lithium-bearing carbon atom. In the piperidine series, the best data are for the 3-phenylpropyl compound, which was shown to be >99 1 er. In the pyrrolidine series, the er of the analogous compound indicates 21-22% retention and 78-79% inversion of configuration. Activated alkyl halides such as benzyl bromide and teri-butyl bromoacetate afford racemic adducts. In both the pyrrolidine and piperidine series, most carbonyl electrophiles (i.e. carbon dioxide, dimethyl carbonate, methyl chloroformate, pivaloyl chloride, cyclohexanone, acetone and benzaldehyde) react with virtually complete retention of configuration at the lithium-bearing carbon atom. The only exceptions are benzophenone, which affords racemic adduct, and pivaloyl chloride, which shows some inversion. The inversion observed with pivaloyl chloride may be due to partial racemization of the ketone product during work-up. 

In summary (Scheme 15), 2-lithiopiperidines and 2-lithiopyrrolidines appear to be very versatile nucleophiles for the elaboration of these heterocyclic systems, affording a variety of 2-substituted heterocycles in excellent yields. The stereoselectivity of the reaction is near 100% in the piperidine series with most carbonyl electrophiles (retention of configuration) and alkyl halides (inversion of configuration). In the pyrrolidine series, the selectivity is also near 100% with carbonyl electrophiles (retention), but less selective (inversion predominates) with alkyl halides (less problematic with Af-aUylpyrrolidines). 

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