Reductive cleavage strategy

Scheme 10-24 A reductive cleavage strategy has been used to remove the sultone tether.

Because reductive cleavage of aliphatic nitro compounds with Bu3SnH proceeds via alkyl radicals, nitro compounds are also used as precursors to alkyl radicals. Reactions using nitro compounds may have some advantages over other ones, since aliphatic nitro compounds are available from various sources. For example, the sequence of the Michael additions of nitro compounds provides an excellent method for the construction of quaternary carbon compounds (Eq. 7.79).126 Newkome has used this strategy for the construction of dendritic polymers (Eq. 7.80).127... 

Takahashi and coworkers have used INOC for synthesis of the chiral CD rings paclitaxel, which is an antitumor agent. Synthetic strategy starting from 2-deoxy-D-ribose is demonstrated in Scheme 8.22.110 The precursor of INOC was prepared by 1,2-addition of a,(3-unsaturated ester to ketone. INOC and subsequent reductive cleavage by H2/Raney Ni afford the desired CD ring structure. 

The same basic strategy was applied to the synthesis of the smaller fragment benzyl ester 28 as well (Scheme 4). In this case, aldehyde 22 prepared from (S)-2-hydroxypentanoic acid [9] was allylated with ent-10 and tin(IV) chloride, and the resulting alcohol 23 was converted to epimer 24 via Mitsunobu inversion prior to phenylselenenyl-induced tetrahydrofuran formation. Reductive cleavage of the phenylselanyl group, hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ether, oxidation, carboxylate benzylation, and desilylation then furnished ester 28. 

The development of sulfone linkers, the exploration of sulfone based chemical transformations and cleavage strategies are an important objective in soHd-phase organic synthesis. This kind of Hnker (Tab. 3.7) has been used with thioethers [108], sulfoxides [109], sulfones [110], sulfonic acids and their corresponding derivatives [111]. Because carbon-sulfur bonds can be cleaved under very mild conditions, some Hnkers have been based on this effect. They can be cleaved under reductive conditions ]112, 113], photolytic conditions [114, 115] or with strong bases [116]. Various safety catch Hnkers have been developed based on the fact that thiols can be oxidized to sulfoxides and sulfones [112, 113]. 

As Scheme 97 shows, employing macrocyclic lactams 263 and o-azidoben-zoyl chloride, 4(3//)-quinazolinones (264) are obtained with the aid of an aza-Wittig strategy. Reductive cleavage of the C-2 —N-3 bond of quinazo-... 

A similar strategy was reported soon after by Atta-ur-Rahman for the synthesis of 16 -epianhydrovinblastine (Scheme 5) (27). Reductive cleavage of catharanthine (21) provided a mixture of epimeric carbomethoxy-cleavamines (22) which, without separation, was transformed to a mix-... 

With an ot, y-ketodiol, cyclization to produce a 3-furanone derivative is feasible, as is shown for the synthesis of ascofuranone (71) and geiparvarin (72) (Scheme 6.57) (286). The precursor for 71 was prepared by the cycloaddition of diene 66 to nitroalcohol 67. In this case, regioselective attack occurred only on the terminal double bond. Reductive cleavage-hydrolysis of the isoxazoline adduct 68 with Mo(CO)6 followed by acid-induced cyclization led to the furanone intermediate (286). A similar strategy was used for the synthesis of geiparvarin (72) (Scheme 6.58) (286). 

Since isoxazoline formation, subsequent modification at the ring or adjacent centers and reductive cleavage can be carried out in a highly diastereoselective manner, a scheme was devised to synthesize various iminopolyols by this strategy. 

Reductive cleavage, using the NaCNBHj-HCl-THF system to produce 2 -pro-penylidene acetals, produced the same regioselectivity as that found in benzylidene acetals [27] (Scheme 11), and also for the p-methoxybenzylidene acetals (Scheme 12) [27]. These observations open the way to further strategies for protecting group manipulations. 

Secondary heteroarylamines have also been prepared by reductive cleavage of resin-bound benzotriazole-derived aminals (Entry 7, Table 3.27). Few successful examples of this strategy have been reported, however, which may be due to the difficulty in preparing the required aminals [481]. 

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