Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition asymmetric

Asymmetric synthesis of 3-amino (3-lactams via Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition reaction 98KGS1448. 

Palomo, C. Aizpurua, J. M. Ganboa, I. Oiarbide, M. Asymmetric Synthesis of P-Lactams by Staudinger Ketene-Imine Cycloaddition Reaction, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 1999, 3223-3235. 

Palomo, C., Aizpurua, J. M. Asymmetric synthesis of 3-amino-P-laclams via Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition reaction. Chem. Met. Comp. (New York) (Translation of Khim. Geterot. Soed.) 1999, 34,1222-1236. 

Palomo C, Aizpurua JM, Ganboa 1, Oiarbide M (1999) Asymmetric synthesis of P-lactams by Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition reaction. Eur J Org Chem 1999 3223-3235... 

Although the asymmetric Staudinger reaction, controlled by a chiral iV substituent on imines, is seldom diastereoselective, because of the relatively long distance between chiral and reaction centers," we turned all the same towards the [2+2] ketene-imine cycloaddition with the chiral trifluoroacetaldimine 25, prepared from trifluoroacetaldehyde hemiketal and the (iS)-phenethylamine. Tlie reaction of benzyloxyketene with imine 25 was efficient leading to flie mixture of azetidinones 26 and 27 in 90 % yield. High cis/trans stereoselectivity was observed, with only 3-5 % of trans azetidinones formed. As expected, the cWrality transfer was low with a diastereoisomeric excess of only 10 %. Fortunately, it was possible to easily separate the two diastereoisomers by crystallization in ethanol of the crude mixture. Stereoisomer 26 crystallized in ethanol and was obtained in an excellent diasteroisomeric purity (> 99 %). Stereoisomer 27 could be isolated in 95 % diastereoisomeric purity after SiOj chromatography and crystallization (Scheme 12). 

Cycloaddition of diverse types of ketenes and imines leading to the formation of P-lactams is reported. The reactions of chiral ketenes with achiral imines, chiral imines with achiral ketenes, chiral imines with chiral ketenes, and catalytic asymmetrical Staudinger reactions have been investigated. In general, a higher level of asymmetric induction is achieved using either chiral ketenes or chiral imines derived from chiral aldehydes in comparison to the use of a chiral imine derived from an achiral aldehyde with an achiral ketene. Both carboxylic acid chlorides and carboxylic acids themselves have been used as ketene precursors. 

The Staudinger reaction [92], a [2 + 2]-cycloaddition of a ketene and a nucleophilic imine, usually proceeds by an initial imine attack on the ketene thus forming a zwitterionic enolate which subsequently cyclizes. This reaction is an expedient route to p-lactams, the core of numerous antibiotics (e.g., penicillins) and other biologically active molecules [93]. In contrast, for Lewis-base catalyzed asymmetric reactions, nonnucleophilic imines are required (to suppress a noncatalyzed background reaction), bearing, for example, an N-Ts [94] or -Boc-substituent [95]. 

Cossio, F. P., Lecea, B., Cuevas, C., Mielgo, A., Palomo, C. A novel entry for the asymmetric Staudinger reaction experimental and computational studies on the formation of P-lactams through [2+2] cycloaddition reaction of ketenes to imines. An. Quim. 1993, 89, 119-122. 

The addition of an acid chloride to an imine is an important method for the preparation of (3-lactams and is often referred to as the Staudinger reaction. The reaction allows a convenient and mild approach to the -lactam antibiotics and has therefore received considerable attention. Good stereoselectivity in favour of the cis 3,4-disubstituted product is common. For example, the p-lactam 182 was formed in reasonable yield by condensation of the acid chloride 180 and the imine 181 (3.120). The reaction is not thought to be a concerted cycloaddition with the ketene, but to take place via a zwitterionic intermediate. Almost complete asymmetric induction in the synthesis of -lactams by the Staudinger reaction using a chiral auxiliary or a chiral tertiary amine, such as benzoylquinine, has been reported. 

The most enduring synthetic access to (3-lactams remains through the formal [2+2] cycloaddition of ketenes and imines [5] first reported by Staudinger in 1908 [6]. This reaction is known to proceed spontaneously and thus the majority of asymmetric syntheses have focused on the use of chiral auxiliary methods to obtain control of stereochemistry [5,7]. In addition, examples of the Staudinger reaction employing disubstituted ketenes are rare, even... 

Asymmetric synthesis of trans- -lactams from disubstituted ketenes and N-tosyl arylimines has been catalysed by (R)-BINAPHANE with up to 98% ee and (ir> 90 10. " However, the Staudinger cycloaddition method can be unsuitable if the reactants (ketones -I- imines) bear electron-withdrawing substituents as 0-lactams undergo base-induced isomerization to the azacyclobutene followed by electrocyclic ring opening to the corresponding a, 0-unsaturated alkenamide. ... 

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