Pudovik reactions

Thiazolines (57) can be phosphonylated in a stereospecific maimer by diastereomerically pure phosphites (58) to give 4-thiazohdinylphosphonates (59) via a Pudovik reaction <96SC1903>. 

Metal-catalyzed asymmetric addition of dialkyl phosphites to aldehydes (Pudovik reaction) has been extensively developed since the initial reports in 1993 by Shibuya. Scheme 5-25 illustrates the use of TiCh to promote diastereoselective addition of diethyl phosphite to an a-amino aldehyde. 

In recent years, the use of a-substituted phosphoryl compounds has mushroomed as they have become recognized as useful analogues of a-substituted carboxyl compounds (including the a-amino acids), as well as materials with their own applications. We will begin here by reviewing the well-established approaches toward such materials, specifically the Abramov and Pudovik reactions, including the associated conjugate addition reactions, and then consider the newer approaches toward such compounds. 

The use of an anionic reagent for addition at carbonyl carbon rather than a fully esterified form of a trivalent phosphorus acid obviates a troublesome aspect of the Abramov reaction. Specifically no dealkylation step is required. Mechanistic investigations257 258 indicate that the reaction proceeds much as a simple "aldol"-type reaction in which the anionic phosphorus site adds directly to the carbonyl center. While the initial efforts concerned with the "Pudovik reaction"259 were directed toward the use of sodium salts of the simple dialkyl phosphites, as shown in Equation 3.17,260 266 with a, 5-unsaturated carbonyl systems (vide infra) competition between sites for addition can occur. Addition at the carbonyl carbon site is the kinetically favored route.267-270... 

Attempts have also been made to explore chiral catalysis in the Pudovik reaction (the addition of dialkylphosphites to aldehydes). Rath and Spilling158... 

Lewis acids are usually used as catalysts for the Pudovik reaction [97]. On the contrary, the Stevens group [98] performed the reaction in a microreactor and proved that it can be successfully performed in the absence of any catalyst. The authors were guided by the reaction as reported by Fields in 1952 (performed in the absence of catalysts and also solvents), but certain modifications had to be applied to make the process suitable for continuous flow microreactor conditions, that is the use of methanol as a reaction promoting solvent. 

The procedure of isotope effect studies will be illustrated on several examples. First one concerns studies of phosphonate-phosphate rearrangement (Scheme 1). Phosphite 3 reacts in the presence of triethylamine with o-nitrobenzaldehyde (Pudovik reaction) to form 1-hydroxyphosphonate 4 as mixture of two diastereo-isomers, 1 1. Amine also catalyses the reverse refro-phospho-aldol (retro-Abramov) reaction of 1-hydroxyphosphonate to phosphite and aldehyde and rearrangement to phosphate 5. In acetonitrile at 65°C Pudovik reaction is much faster than of retro-Abramov reaction and phosphonate-phosphate rearrangement, which rates are comparable. Important fact for the mechanism elucidation was experimental evidence that rearrangement occurs with retention of configuration at phosphorus atom.49... 

The range of suitable participants in the Michaelis-Becker reaction is essentially the same as for the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction. Halo-aldehyde and -ketone substrates suffer the competing reaction of direct attack at the carbonyl group leading to Perkow reaction products (with a-halocarbonyl compounds) or Pudovik reaction products, which often cyclize (cf. Sections 4 and 6). 

Dialkyl phosphites and their metal salts seldom undergo the Perkow reaction with a-halo-aldehydes or -ketones but usually yield a-hydroxy- and/or epoxy-phosphonate esters (i.e. Pudovik reaction products, cf. Section 6).78... 

The most successful asymmetric variants of the Abramov reaction employ chiral substrates, either chiral carbonyl compounds or aldimines, or chiral phosphorus(III) reagents.5,51,86,88 However, the Pudovik reaction using chiral catalysts is a superior route for the asymmetric synthesis of a-hydroxy- and a-aminophosphonates (Section 6). 

Chiral carbonyl and aldimine substrates can give good diastereoselectivity in the Pudovik reaction.86 88,102 The Pudovik reaction of isolated imines generally proceeds in higher yield and de (where applicable) than if the imine is formed itt situ (the Kabachnik-Fields reaction, Section 7). 

Asymmetric catalysis of the Pudovik reaction is an area of active study with numerous success stories, mostly featuring chiral Lewis acid catalysts, and further developments are anticipated.39,86,87 Shibasaki and co-workers heterobimetallic catalysts108 are the best developed in this field, for both aldehyde and aldimine substrates. 

The Kabachnik-Fields reaction is the three-component condensation of an aldehyde or ketone, an amine (secondary, primary, or ammonia) and a monobasic phosphorus(III) acid to yield an a-amino organophosphorus compound (a phos-phonate, phosphinate, or tertiary phosphine oxide) Scheme 28. It was discovered independently in 1952 by Kabachnik and Medved 120 and Fields,121 and may be regarded as a variant of the Pudovik reaction (Section 6), which was discovered contemporarily. The yields of the reaction tend to be only moderate (cf. Section 6), and are generally unsatisfactory with phosphinate reactants, but it is wide in scope and simple to perform. For a recent review of the Kabachnik-Fields reaction, including discussion of the mechanism (which usually proceeds via the imine), see Ref. 102. 

If a nucleophilic addition at a carbonyl or imine carbon occurs, the product is still a phosphinate (from a phosphonous ester) or a phosphine oxide (from a phosphinous ester), but the reaction is commonly referred to as an Abramov or Pudovik reaction. An example of the Pudovik reaction is shown below (equation 16). Addition of the phosphorus nucleophile to the /3-carbon atom of an a, /3-unsaturated substrate (Michael addition) is commonly referred to as a hydrophosphinylation reaction. ... 

An alternative approach that avoids many of the difficulties of the Abramov reaction uses a bivalent phosphorus component with at least one acidic site on phosphorus. The Pudovik reaction uses a base for the removal of the acidic proton and facilitates attack by the electron-rich phosphoras anionic site on the carbonyl carbon. A variety of bases have been used for this purpose, as have phosphoras reagents with differing numbers of acidic sites on the phosphoras component. High yields of adducts are possible under very mild conditions using this approach (equation 31). The... 

A bimetallic catalyst prepared from BINOL and lithium aluminum hydride has been found to result in useful asymmetric induction in the Pudovik reaction [17]. The (f )-ALB catalyst 64 (10 mol %) facilitates the addition of dimethyl phosphite to a variety of electron-rich and electron-poor aryl aldehydes in high yield with induction in the range 71-90 % ee. The nature of the solvent is important in this reaction—the induction for addition to benzaldehyde dropped from 85 % ee to 65 % ee when the solvent was changed from toluene to dichloromethane. Aluminum seems to be a key to the success of this reaction, because reaction with benzaldehyde was not as successful with other bimetallic catalysts. BINOL catalysts with lanthanum and potassium gave only 2 % ee, a catalyst with lanthanum and sodium gave a low 32 % ee, and a catalyst with lanthanum and lithium gave only a 28 % ee [18]. Aliphatic aldehydes were not successfully hydrophosphonylated with dimethyl phosphite by catalyst 64 (Sch. 9). Induction was low (3-24 % ee) for unbranched and branched substrates. a,/3-Unsaturated aldehydes were, however, reported to work nearly as well as aryl aldehydes with four examples in the range 55-89 % ee. The failure of aliphatic aldehydes with this catalyst can be overcome by reduction of the product obtained from reactions with a,)3-unsaturated aldehydes. As illustrated by the reduction of 67 with palladium on carbon, this can be done without epimerization of the a-hydroxy phos-phonate. 

The use of these materials in a range of reactions [isomerization of alkenes and alkynes, C—C bond formation, aldol condensation, Knoevenagel condensation, nitroaldol reactions, Michael addition, conjugate addition of alcohols, nucleophilic addition of phenylacetylene, nucleophilic ring opening of epoxides, oxidation reactions, Si—C bond formation, Pudovik reaction (P—C bond formation) and synthesis ofheterocycles] have been discussed in detail by Ono [248], as well as in the other cited reviews. We will thus discuss here only selected examples. 

The Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction works well for the less complex aroyl and alkanoyl chlorides, where purification by distillation is possible. Moreover, there has been less success in the preparation of oc,P-unsaturated acylphosphonates, where multiple addition products are often observed. Recourse has been found in an attractive route that entails oxidation of dialkyl 1-hydroxyalkyl- or 1-hydroxyaryIphosphonates produced by nucleophilic addition of dialkyl phosphites to carbonyl compounds under basic conditions (Pudovik reaction). Alkali metal salts of dialkyl phosphites are currently used in the Pudovik reaction, and the more common procedure of generating the anion involves the addition of a small amount of alcoholic alkoxide ion to the reaction mixture. Neutral amines represent an alternative to the use of anionic bases. In recent years, the use of solid-phase materials as basic catalysts has been successfully developed (Scheme 7.7). One system involves the addition of basic alumina to the carbonyl compound and dialkyl phosphite the other involves the addition of KF or CsF to the mixture of carbonyl compound and dialkyl phosphite. - Such a process for generating dialkyl 1-hydroxyalkyIphosphonates is very flexible and accommodates a large variety of carbonyl compounds. 

Unquestionably, one of the most attractive synthetic methods for the preparation of dialkyl 2-(alkoxycarbonyl)ethylphosphonates involves the conjugate addition of a dialkyl phosphite to the carbon-carbon double bond of a,p-unsaturated carboxylates (Pudovik reaction, Scheme 8.44). In the presence of EtONa, diethyl phosphite reacts vigorously with acrylate in EtOH to give the Michael addition product in 84% yield. The reaction is applied with success to the synthesis of dialkyl 2-(alkoxycarbonyl)ethylphosphonates bearing a large variety of acyclic (symmetric - or disymmetric 30 or cyclic (symmetric or disynunetric ) substituents at phosphorus. 

In particular, the thermochemistry and kinetics of the electrophilic Pudovik reaction, between five- and six-membered cyclic (and acyclic) phosphorous acids and substituted morpholino- ethenes, have been studied. The high reactivity has been explained in terms of ring strain (23 kcal/mol) and heats of activation of 26 kcal/mol determined for the reaction. 

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