Rawal diene

Kaw cki used optically active sulfonamide 234 to perform an asymmetric aza-Diels-Alder reaction with Rawal diene 235. " The reaction was performed in the presence of a Lewis acid, trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (TMSOTf), to obtain dihydropyridinone 236 as the product with high enantiomeric excess (Scheme 40.51). 

SCHEME 40.51. Aza-Diels-Alder reaction of suliinimines 234 with Rawal diene 235. 

In most of the successful Diels-Alder reactions reported, dienes containing no heteroatom have been employed, and enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions of multiply heteroatom-substituted dienes, e.g. Danishefsky s diene, are rare, despite their tremendous potential usefulness in complex molecular synthesis. Rawal and coworkers have reported that the Cr(III)-salen complex 15 is a suitable catalyst for the reaction of a-substituted a,/ -unsubstituted aldehydes with l-amino-3-siloxy dienes [21] (Scheme 1.28, Table 1.12). The counter-ion of the catalyst is important and good results are obtained in the reaction using the catalyst paired with the SbFg anion. 

The enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder (HDA) reaction of carbonyl compounds with 1,3-dienes represents an elegant access to optically active six-membered oxo-heterocycles. Since the pioneering work of Rawal et al. in 2003 [55], the enantioselective HDA reaction catalyzed by diols (such as TADDOLs) has become a flourishing field of research [56]. 

The Rawal group next applied diol catalysis to the enantioselective vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol (VMA) reaction of electron-deficient aldehydes [105]. Screening of various known chiral diol derivatives, including VANOL, VAPOL, BINOL, BAMOL, and TADDOL, revealed that 38a was the only catalyst capable of providing products in acceptable levels ofenantioselection (Scheme 5.55). Subsequent to this work, Scettri reported a similar study of TADDOL-promoted VMA reactions with Chan s diene [106]. 

Notes See similarity with Chan s.2 Danishefsky s and Rawal s Diene. 

Rawal s diene has been shown to be about 25 times more reactive than Danishefsky s diene See Diels-Alder Reaction. 

The HDA reaction allows for rapid access to chiral six-membered heterocyclic structures that serve as valuable intermediates in organic synthesis. The first highly enantioselective HDA reaction promoted by a chiral hydrogen bond donor was reported from the Rawal laboratory. While investigating the cycloaddition reactions of amino-siloxy diene 115, it was observed that this diene was exceptionally reactive to heterodienophiles, and underwent HDA reactions with various aldehydes at room temperature, even in the absence of any added catalyst (Scheme 6.14). Subsequent treatment of the intermediate cycloadducts (116) with acetyl chloride afforded the corresponding dihydro-4-pyrones (117) in good overall yields [101]. Further studies of this reaction revealed a pronounced solvent effect,... 

Among the more reactive and synthetically useful dienes are doubly and triply activated alkoxy- and amino-substituted dienes, such as ( )-l-methoxy-3-(trimethylsilyloxy)-1,3-butadiene (Danishefsky s diene),( )-l-(dimethylamino)-3-(fert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)-1,3-butadiene (Rawal s diene)-, and 1,3-dimethoxy-l-(trimethylsilyloxy)-1,3-butadiene (Brassard s diene). As illustrated below, the cyclo-addition products arising from these dienes can either be hydrolyzed or treated with fluoride ion to remove the silyl group, which is followed by (3-elimination to provide conjugated cyclohexenones. 

Kozmin, S. A., Janey, J. M., Rawal, V. H. 1-amino-3-siloxy-1,3-butadienes Highly reactive dienes for the Diels-Alder reaction. J. Org. 

Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction Using Rawal s Diene... 

In the last decade a variety of catalytic asymmetric DA reactions wifh alkenes has been developed most, however, involve the use of a cychc diene, particularly cyclopentadiene. There are a few examples of catalytic asymmetric reactions of siloxydienes with alkenes. Corey et al. have reported enantioselective cycloaddition of sil-oxydiene 106 to mefhacrolein as the key step of fhe asymmetric synfhesis of cassiol (Scheme 10.116) [314]. Recently, Rawal et al. have demonstrated that Cr(III)-salen complex 108a catalyzes the cycloaddition of l-amino-3-siloxy-l,3-dienes to a, -unsa-turated aldehydes wifh high enantioselectivity [315]. The highly functionalized cyclohexene products have been used for alkaloid synthesis. Ghosez et al. have introduced asymmetric DA reaction of siloxy-substituted azadienes 109 under catalysis by Cu(II)-box complex 70a [316]. 

Kozmin and Rawal examined the reactions of chiral diene 309 with various dieno-philes. Using this strategy, cyclohexenones were obtained with very high ee values (86-98%). Thus, the reaction of 309 with methacrolein (310) afforded adduct 311, which... 

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