Sharpless asymmetric amino

When a nonproteinogenic unsaturated amino acid was subjected to the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, 49 was formed (87TL3605). It is known that AAs are converted with phosgene into A-carboxy-a-amino acid anhydride (NCA) derivatives. Unexpectedly, A-protected dehydroaspartic acid gave l,3-oxazine-2,6-dione-4-carboxylic acid under such conditions (88CL1473). 

Asymmetric synthesis of stavudine and cordycepin, anti-HIV agents, and several 3 -amino-3 -deoxy-P-nudeosides was achieved utilizing this cycloisomerization of 3-butynols to dihydrofuran derivatives [16]. For example, Mo(CO)6-TMNO-promoted cyclization of the optically active alkynyl alcohol 42, prepared utilizing Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, afforded dihydrofuran 43 in good yield. Iodine-mediated introduction of a thymine moiety followed by dehydroiodination and hydrolysis of the pivaloate gave stavudine in only six steps starting from allyl alcohol (Scheme 5.13). 

The Sharpless asymmetric dehydroxylation of resin-bound olefins was monitored using 3H, 13C and HMQC HRMAS NMR.63 The authors found 13C HRMAS NMR to be particularly suited to evaluating the progress of this reaction and permitted the enantiomeric excesses of the products to be determined before they were cleaved from the support. Most importantly, they were able to evaluate the types of substrates amenable to this reaction on solid supports, showing the ability of HRMAS NMR to contribute to synthetic questions. Transformation of the unnatural amino acid Lys(NH2) on a poly (ethylene glycol)-dimethylacrylamide (PEGA) resin to 6-hydroxynorleucine was confirmed by application of TOCSY HRMAS experiments.64... 

Aldol products do not have to come from an aldol condensation. In another example of catalysis by a small organic molecule, Jeffrey Bode of UC Santa Barbara reports (J- Am. Chem. Soc. 2004,126, 8126) that the thioazolium salt 7 effects the rearrangement of an epoxy aldehyde such as 6 to the aldol product 8. This is a net oxidation of the aldehyde, and reduction of the epoxide. As epoxy aldehydes such as 6 are readily available by Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, this should be a general route to enantiomerically-aldol products. The rearrangement also works with an aziridine aldehyde such as 9, to give the ff-amino ester 10. 

Jacobsen epoxidation turned out to be the best large-scale method for preparing the cis-amino-indanol for the synthesis of Crixivan, This process is very much the cornerstone of the whole synthesis. During the development of the first laboratory route into a route usable on a very large scale, many methods were tried and the final choice fell on this relatively new type of asymmetric epoxidation. The Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation works only for allylic alcohols (Chapter 45) and so is no good here. The Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation works less well on ris-alkenes than on trans-alkenes, The Jacobsen epoxidation works best on cis-alkenes. The catalyst is the Mn(III) complex easily made from a chiral diamine and an aromatic salicylaldehyde (a 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde). 

R,R-diphenyl ethylene carbonate CR,R-DPEC)) with a racemic zirconaaziridine. (C2-symmetric, cyclic carbonates are attractive as optically active synthons for C02 because optically active diols are readily available through Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylations [67].) Reaction through diastereomeric transition states affords the two diastereomers of the spirocyclic insertion product protonolysis and Zr-mediated transesterification in methanol yield a-amino acid esters. As above, the stereochemistry of the new chiral center is determined by the competition between the rate of interconversion of the zirconaaziridine enantiomers and the rate of insertion of the carbonate. As the ratio of zirconaaziridine enantiomers (S)-2/(R)-2 is initially 1 1, a kinetic quench of their equilibrium will result in no selectivity (see Eq. 32). Maximum diastereoselec-tivity (and, therefore, maximum enantioselectivity for the preparation of the... 

Asymmetric epoxidation of homoallylic alcohols. Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation of primary homoallylic alcohols with l-( + )-diethyl tartrate proceeds with only moderate enantiomeric selectivity (23-55% ee) and opposite to that observed with allylic alcohols. Unfortunately, operation at low temperatures to improve the enantiomeric excess also retards the rate drastically. Even so, this epoxidation provides a useful synthesis of (-l-)--y-amino-P(R)-hydroxybutyric acid (1). 

Sharpless and co-workers first reported the aminohydroxyIation of alkenes in 1975 and have subsequently extended the reaction into an efficient one-step catalytic asymmetric aminohydroxylation. This reaction uses an osmium catalyst [K20s02(OH)4], chloramine salt (such as chloramine T see Chapter 7, section 7.6) as the oxidant and cinchona alkaloid 1.71 or 1.72 as the chiral ligand. For example, asymmetric aminohydroxylation of styrene (1.73) could produce two regioisomeric amino alcohols 1.74 and 1.75. Using Sharpless asymmetric aminohydroxylation, (IR)-N-ethoxycarbonyl-l-phenyl-2-hydroxyethylamine (1.74) was obtained by O Brien et al as the major product and with high enantiomeric excess than its regioisomeric counterpart (R)-N-ethoxycarbonyl-2-phenyl-2-hydroxyethylamine (1.75). The corresponding free amino alcohols were obtained by deprotection of ethyl carbamate (urethane) derivatives. 

Kawahata and Goodman utilized a chiral aziridine 166 as a simple precursor for the synthesis of / -aminoacids <1999TL2271>. The chiral aziridine is prepared in five steps from the corresponding allylic alcohol via a Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation. A one-electron reduction of aziridine 166 with SmG provided the ring-opened aziridine. Protection of the resulting amine as the BOC-derivative provided a 1.6 1 mixture of the BOC-amino ester diaster-eomers 167a and 167b in 66% yield (Equation 50). 

As a Chiral Starting Material in L Amino Sugar and l-Nucleoside Synthesis. The recent improved synthetic access to the (45)-aldehyde has facilitated non-natural sugar and nucleoside synthesis. Asymmetric synthesis of several L-amino sugars has been reported. Julia olefination of the (45)-aldehyde with the sulfone afforded the key olefin intermediate as a 4 1E/Z mixture, which was elaborated via Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation (SAD) and protecting group interchange to afford the protected 2-deoxy-2-amino-L-mannopyranose (eq 4). ... 

If we use a chiral reagent to synthesize an amino acid, however, it is possible to favor the formation of the desired enantiomer over the other, without having to resort to a resolution. For example, single enantiomers of amino acids have been prepared by using enantioselective (or asymmetric) hydrogenation reactions. The success of this approach depends on finding a chiral catalyst, in much the same way that a chiral catalyst is used for the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation (Section 12.15). 

A simple, divergent, asymmetric synthesis of the four stereoisomers of the 3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-L-hexose family was proposed by Dai and coworkers [222], which is based on the Katsuki-Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols (Scheme 13.115). Recently, A-trifluoroacetyl-L-daunosamine, A-trifluoroacetyl-L-acosamine, A-benzoyl-D-acosamine and A-benzoyl-D-nistosamine were derived from methyl sorbate via the methyl 4,5-epoxy-( -hex-2-enoates obtained via a chemoenzymatic method [223]. 

The Sharpless asymmetric aminohydroxylation [230] of the electron-deficient 2-vinylfuran 505 gives a 7 1 mixture of semiprotected amino alcohols 506 and 507 (41%). The major product (ee > 86%) is reduced with diisobutylaluminum hydride, giving diol 508 [231], which can be converted into the (3-hydroxyfurylamine derivative 509. This compound is an... 

Not all organic chemists can be Involved in such exciting projects as the launching of a new anti-AIDS drug. But the chemistry used in this project was invented by chemists in other institutions who had no idea that it would eventually be used to make Crixlvan. The Sharpless asymmetric epoxlda-tion, the catalytic asymmetric reduction, the stereoselective enolate alkylation, and the various methods tried out for the enantiomerically pure amino indanol (resolution, enzymatic kinetic resolution) were developed by organic chemists in research laboratories. Some of these famous chemists like Sharpless invented new methods, some made new compounds, some studied new types of molecules, but all built on the work of other chemists. 

Sharpless asymmetric aminohydroxylation One-pot enantioselective synthesis of protected vicinal amino alcohols from simple alkenes. 404... 

Recently, the use of polymer-supported chiral ligands and poly(amino acids) as enantioselective elicitors during epoxidation has become popular. Thus, poly(tartrate ester) is for the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation,poly-L-leucine for epoxidation of enones. 

The aziridino alcohols that have been prepared and tested as chiral promoters for the catalytic asymmetric dialkylzinc alkylation of imines are shown in Fig. 4. The authors have investigated three different approaches to obtain the ligands in enantiomerically pure form (1) the use of the chiral pool, (2) the Sharpless asymmetric aminohydroxylation, and (3) the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation. The starting materials for the preparation of the aziridino alcohols 30, 31a-h, 32a,b, and 33 were the readily available amino acids L-serine, L-threonine, and aZZo-L-threonine. 

The Sharpless asymmetric hydroxylation can take one of two forms, the initially developed asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD)1 or the more recent variation, asymmetric aminohydroxylation (AA).2 In the case of AD, the product is a 1,2-diol, whereas in the AA reaction, a 1,2-amino alcohol is the desired product. These reactions involve the asymmetric transformation of an alkene to a vicinally functionalized alcohol mediated by osmium tetraoxide in the presence of chiral ligands (e.g., (DHQD)2-PHAL or (DHQ)2-PHAL). A mixture of these reagents (ligand, osmium, base, and oxidant) is commercially available and is sold under the name of AD-mix p or AD-mix a (vide infra). 

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