Pyrrolidine as reagent

Less reactive reagents may act more selectively. Thus androst-4-ene-3,11,17-trione (7) is converted into the 3-monoenamine (8) with morpholine and into the 3,17-dienamine (9) with pyrrolidine.The greater reactivity of pyrrolidine as compared to piperidine and morpholine has been attributed to the greater stability associated with a double bond exocyclic to a 5-mem-bered ring which facilitates the dehydration step. ... 

Protected sulfenylation reagents (Lg-S-Pg) a-sulfenylate aldehydes, using steri- cally encumbered chiral pyrrolidines as enantioselective organocatalysts.298... 

The use of ketoaminals based on pyrrolidine as chiral auxiliaries has been demonstrated as anotiner entry to optically active a-hydroxycarbonyls. 7 fhe aminals (76 Scheme 6) are readily obtained from a chiral diamine (75) and glyoxal. Addition of Grignard reagents to (76), followed by hydrolysis, provides a chiral a-hychoxy aldehyde (78) with the (5)-contiguration. (Optical purities are measured in die 94—95% range. The chiral diamine can be recovered unchanged from the reaction mixture. 

As well as the disubstituted C2-symmelrie pyrrolidines E and F, the monosubstituted (f> )-2-(mcthoxymethyl)pyrrolidine G can be used as chiral auxiliary for the diastereoselecti ve addition of organomctallic reagents to a-oxo amides16. As with the phenylglyoxylic acid derivatives derived from amines E and F. methyllithium or methylmagnesium bromide in diethyl ether preferentially attack the (,S)-mms-conformer 11 (R = ( 6H5), leading to predominant formation of the (2 S)-diastercomer by Re-side attack. 

Fig. 34 Preparation of a 4-thiazolidinone library using an ionic liquid support. Reagents and conditions a MW 100 °C, l-2h, open vessel b R"NH2, t-BuOK, MW 100-150°C, 10-20 min. R = H, Me, CH2COOH R = Pr, i-Pr, i-Bu, Bn, piperonyl, CH2CH(OMe)2, CH2CH CH2 R" = Pr, Bu, Bn, or cyclic derivatives as piperonyl, piperidine, pyrrolidine,...

Secondary amines can be added to certain nonactivated alkenes if palladium(II) complexes are used as catalysts The complexation lowers the electron density of the double bond, facilitating nucleophilic attack. Markovnikov orientation is observed and the addition is anti An intramolecular addition to an alkyne unit in the presence of a palladium compound, generated a tetrahydropyridine, and a related addition to an allene is known.Amines add to allenes in the presence of a catalytic amount of CuBr " or palladium compounds.Molybdenum complexes have also been used in the addition of aniline to alkenes. Reduction of nitro compounds in the presence of rhodium catalysts, in the presence of alkenes, CO and H2, leads to an amine unit adding to the alkene moiety. An intramolecular addition of an amine unit to an alkene to form a pyrrolidine was reported using a lanthanide reagent. 

As with the above pyrrolidine, proline-type chiral auxiliaries also show different behaviors toward zirconium or lithium enolate mediated aldol reactions. Evans found that lithium enolates derived from prolinol amides exhibit excellent diastereofacial selectivities in alkylation reactions (see Section 2.2.32), while the lithium enolates of proline amides are unsuccessful in aldol condensations. Effective chiral reagents were zirconium enolates, which can be obtained from the corresponding lithium enolates via metal exchange with Cp2ZrCl2. For example, excellent levels of asymmetric induction in the aldol process with synj anti selectivity of 96-98% and diastereofacial selectivity of 50-200 116a can be achieved in the Zr-enolate-mediated aldol reaction (see Scheme 3-10). 

This observation has led to the preparation of more effective bicyclic oxaza-borolidines such as 1, prepared from (S)-(-)-2-(diphenylhydroxymethyl)pyrrolidine and BH3 (la) or methylboronic acid (lb). Both reagents catalyze borane reduction of alkyl aryl ketones to furnish (R)-alcohols in > 95% ee, by face-selective hydride transfer within a complex such as B. Catalyst lb is somewhat more effective than... 

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