Pseudoephedrine, chirality

In the laboratory of T.F. Jamison, the synthesis of amphidinolide T1 was accomplished utilizing a catalytic and stereoselective macrocyclization as the key step. ° The Myers asymmetric alkylation was chosen to establish the correct stereochemistry at the C2 position. In the procedure, the alkyl halide was used as the limiting reagent and almost two equivalents of the lithium enolate of the A/-propionyl pseudoephedrine chiral auxiliary was used. The alkylated product was purified by column chromatography and then subjected to basic hydrolysis to remove the chiral auxiliary. 

Two other alkylations were based on readily-available chiral auxiharies. PhUippe Karoyan of the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie observed Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 4704) that the acylated Oppolzer camphor sultam 20 condensed with the Mannich reagent 21 to give 22 as a single diastereomer. Andrew G. Myers of Harvard University developed the pseudoephedrine chiral auxiliary of 23 to direct the construction of ternary alkylated centers. He has now established J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008,130, 13231) that further alkylation gave 24, having a quaternary alkylated center, in high diastereomeric excess. 

A number of other types of chiral auxiliaries have been employed in enolate alkylation. Excellent results are obtained using amides of pseudoephedrine. Alkylation occurs anti to the a-oxybenzyl group.93 The reactions involve the Z-enolate and there is likely bridging between the two lithium cations, perhaps by di-(isopropyl)amine.94... 

The oxazasilolidine derived from pseudoephedrine incorporates chirality around the silicon and leads to enantioselective addition. 

The introduction of various metal-catalyzed reactions, however, remarkably expanded the scope of the epoxidation of Q,.3-unsaturatcd ketones. Enders et al. have reported that a combination of diethylzinc and A-methyl-pseudoephedrine epoxidizes various o,. j-unsaturatcd ketones, under an oxygen atmosphere, with good to high enantioselectivity (Scheme 23).126 In this reaction, diethylzinc first reacts with the chiral alcohol, and the resulting ethylzinc alkoxide is converted by oxygen to an ethylperoxo-zinc species that epoxidizes the a,/3-unsaturated ketones enantioselectively. Although a stoichiometric chiral auxiliary is needed for this reaction, it can be recovered in almost quantitative yield. 

The same laboratory has prepared three tridentate zinc chelates from chiral tertiary amino phenolic alcohols and used them for enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aryl aldehydes in 70-87% ee. Results with the ligand 4 [from (1S,2S)-(+ )-pseudoephedrine] are typical. 

Despite the high sensitivity of the methods for chiral resolution described in Section IV.D.4, more direct methods are afforded by NMR spectroscopy, especially for the products of synthesis. Ephedrine (179), pseudoephedrine (180a) and its Me ether (180b) yield stable epimeric N — BH3 adducts on treatment with borane. The configuration of the nitrogen moiety was established by NMR, taking into account the conformational analysis of the molecule392. 

Now for a rather unexpected twist. We have seen that if there are n chiral centres there should be 2" configurational isomers, and we have considered each of these for n = 2 (e.g. ephedrine, pseudoephedrine). It transpires that if the groups around chiral centres are the same, then the number of stereoisomers is less than 2". Thus, when n = 2, there are only three stereoisomers, not four. As one of the simplest examples, let us consider in detail tartaric acid, a component of grape juice and many other fruits. This fits the requirement, since each of the two chiral centres has the same substituents. 

Inspired by the previous results, Leighton et al. reported the enantioselective [3 + 2] acylhydrazone-enol ether cycloaddition reaction by employing the same pseudoephedrine-based chiral silane. The pyrazohdine product was obtained in 61% yield with 6 1 dr and 77% ee in 24 h. The use of tert-butyl vinyl ether led to an improvement in both diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity as shown in Scheme 34 [108]. 

Notice that ephedrine has two chiral carbons. This would give rise to four possible optical isomers- two pairs of enantiomers and four sets of diastereomers. One of the diastereomers is called pseudoephedrine. 

This procedure describes the use of pseudoephedrine as a chiral auxiliary for the asymmetric alkylation of carboxylic acid amides. In addition to the low cost and availability in bulk of both enantiomeric forms of the chiral auxiliary, pseudoephedrine, a particular advantage of the method is the facility with which the pseudoephedrine amides are formed. In the case of carboxylic acid anhydrides, the acylation reaction occurs rapidly upon mixing with pseudoephedrine. Because pseudoephedrine amides are frequently crystalline materials, the acylation products are often isolated directly by crystallization, as illustrated in the procedure above. 

S,S)-(+)-pseudoephedrine propionamide as chiral auxiliary. The obtained p-amino esters were subjected to a reported base-promoted cyclization [182, 183] affording the p-lactams in good yields and as unique detectable stereoisomer (Scheme 82). 

The concentration of cyclodextrins is also very important for optimizing the chiral resolution. Some reports have been published on this issue [7-14,45], Mularz et al. [45] studied the effect of the concentration of /i-cyclodextrin on the chiral resolution of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. The authors reported... 

Pumera and coworkers [17] used nano-HPLC for enantiomeric resolution of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and ibuprofen by using (3-cyclodextrin as chiral... 

Figure 9.1 Chromatogram of chiral separation of (1) norephedrine, (2) ephedrine, (3) cathinone, (4) amphetamine, (5) pseudoephedrine, (6) methcathinone, and (7) methamphetamine on S-folded separation channel (160 mm length) using 50 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.35) with 10 mM HS-y-cyclodextrin and 5mM SDS at 8 kV/cm potential [18].

Pumera and coworkers [17] exploited (3-cylodextrin as chiral selector for the enantiomeric resolution of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and ibuprofen in NCEC. Male and Luong [23] described chiral analysis of three neurotransmitters (norepinephrine, epinephrine, and isoproterenol) by NCE using 25 mM... 

B. A. Synthesis of a-substituted / -amino acids using pseudoephedrine as a chiral auxiliary. Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 3527-3529. 

Pseudoephedrine proprionamide (39) has been employed as a chiral auxiliary in asymmetric acetate aldol reactions.135... 

Fast chiral separations were carried out in a quartz chip using a linear imaging UV detector. Figure 6.11 shows the chiral separation of a tocainide derivative (an antiarrhythmic drug). UV imaging with a diode-array detector located along the 25-mm-long separation channel reveals the separation between the two enantiomers. Another chiral separation of pseudoephedrine was achieved in 13 s. The... 

Diastereomeric complexes can also be formed by ion-pairing of an enantiomer with a chiral counterion. In order to form this diastereomeric complex, it has been postulated that at least three interaction points between the ion pair are required [250]. Nearly all of these form weak complexes in aqueous mobile phases. Consequently, the chromatographic methods that have been developed have been either silica or diol columns with low-polarity mobile phases. Enantiomeric amines, such as the beta-blockers, have been optically resolved when (-l-)-lO-camphorsulfonic acid was used as the chiral counterion [251]. Enantiomers of norephedrine, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenyramidol have all been resolved from their respective enantiomers with n-dibutyltartrate [252]. Enantiomers of naproxen, a chiral carboxylic acid, are resolved from each other by either using quinidine or quinine in the mobile phase [253]. In these studies, silica... 

In a separate step of the process, either (IS, 2S)-(+)-pseudoephedrine (37) or /V-methyl-( IS, 2K)-cisA -amino-2-indanol (38) was successfully used as auxiliaries for the chiral Michael addition of an aryllithium to give compound 39 (Scheme 23.11).57... 

Ramamurthy et al. have examined enantioselective and diastereoselective ODPM rearrangements of cyclohexadienone and naphthalenone derivatives within MY zeolites, where M is an alkali ion [38, 39]. For example, in Scheme 4.27, in NaY in the presence of several chiral inductors such as ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and camphorquinone-3-oxime, an enantioselective ODPM rearrangement of 65 and 66 took place to afford 68 in 30% ee yield. In the frame of the chiral auxiliary approach, the compound 67 linked to (S)-ephedrine was irradiated within NaY to give 68 in moderate diastereoselective excess (de) (59%). Interestingly, the reaction media of KY, RbY, and CsY reverse the diastereoselectivities. The cation-dependent diastereo-meric switch has been discussed with respect to the N- or O-functional group in 67 [39]. Recently, Arumugan reported that the irradiation of naphthalenones 65 linked chiral auxiliaries (R3 = COO(—)-Ment or (S)-NHCH(Me)Ph) in Li+ or Na + Nafion resulted in chiral products ( 14% de) [40],... 

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