Silyl nitronates nitro aldol reaction

Several approaches based on nitro-aldol for the synthesis of amino sugars have been reported Alumina-catalyzed reaction of methyl 3- nitropropanoate with O-benzyl-o-lactaldehyde gives the o-ribo-nitro-aldol fanti, and isomeri in 63% yield, which is converted into L-dannosamine fsee Secdon 3 3 Jager and coworkers have reported a short synthesis of L-acosamine based on the stereoselective nitro-aldol reaction of 2-O-benzyl-L-lactaldehyde with 3-nitropropanal dimethyl acetal as shovm in Scheme 3 10 The stereoselecdve nitro-aldol reacdon is carried ont by the silyl nitronate approach as discussed in Secdon 3 3... 

Sitro-aldol reaction fl-amino alcohols. Primary nitro compounds form silyl nitronates (1) when treated in sequence with LDA (THF, -78°) and then a silylating reagent. These silyl nitronates undergo aldol condensation with aldehydes in the presence of tetra-n -butylammonium fluoride (there is no reaction in the absence of the catalyst). The products 2 are reduced to /3-amino alcohols (3) in good yield by lithium aluminum hydride (equation 1). Secondary nitroalkanes undergo the same reaction sequence, but the silyl nitronates are less stable and are obtained in only... 

Nitro-aldol reaction (9, 444).5 The /1-amino alcohol obtained by fluoride ion catalyzed aldol condensation of aldehydes with silyl nitronates (1) is the practically pure (RS,SR)-diastereoisomer (3). 

TBDMSCl-Assisted Reactions. Nitro aldol (Henry) reactions have been reported to be promoted by TBDMSCl. To a THF solution of tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride is added sequentially equimolar amounts of the nitro compound, aldehyde, and EtsN, followed by an excess of TBDMSCl (eq 11). Substitution of TMSCl for TBDMSCl reduces the yield of nitro aldol product. The authors speculate that TBDMSCl is responsible for activation of the aldehyde while n-Bu4NF activates the nitro compound. In a related method, primary and secondary nitro alkanes were treated with LDA in THF followed by addition of TBDMSCl to give the corresponding silyl nitronates. The silyl nitronates reacted with a variety of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes which gave vicinal nitro TBDMS aldol products. ... 

The second most important synthetic application of silyl nitronates in C-C bond-forming reactions is their fluoride-mediated addition to aldehydes. Silyl nitronates from secondary nitroalkanes lead to free nitro aldols such as (4), while those from primary nitro alkanes give silylated products. In contrast to the classical Henry reaction, the silyl variant is highly diastereose-lective with aldehydes, furnishing e yfAro-0-silylated nitro aldols (e.g. 5). It is important that the reaction temperature does not rise above 0 °C, otherwise threo/erythro equilibration takes place. The same erythro-nitio aldol derivatives are available by diastere-oselective protonation of silyloxy nitronates (eq 3) (usually the dr is >20 1), while the nonsilylated fAreo-epimers (R = H, dr = 7 3-20 1) are formed by kinetic protonation of lithioxy lithio nitronates in THF/DMPU (eq 4). Other recent modifications of the nitroaldol addition using titanium nitronates or ClSiRs in situ are less selective. It should also be mentioned that there are recent reports about the enantioselective addition of nitromethane to aldehydes in the presence of rare earth binaphthol complexes. 

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