Stereoselective reduction with tetrabutylammonium

The allyl glycoside of a-D-Abe-(l ->3)-a-D-Man 115 was prepared by a different approach.200 The ethyl 1-thio-D-abequopyranoside donor 113 was obtained from methyl (3-D-galactopyranoside derivative 110 according to Scheme 33. The cyclic sulfate intermediate 111 was the precursor for the stereoselective reduction with tetrabutylammonium borohydride to 112 which was further derivatized to the thioglycosyl donor 113. Donor 113 was reacted with acceptor 114 to give 115 after deprotection. 

Diastereoselective reduction of ketones. Trialky Isilanes can reduce aldehydes and ketones in the presence of a catalytic amount of tetrabutylammonium fluoride in HMPT cf. reductions with activated hydrosilanes, II, 554). Under these conditions esters and nitriles are not reduced. The reaction is stereoselective. Thus 2-methylcyclohcxanone is reduced selectively to cA-2-methylcyclohexanol the cvT-selectivity depends on the bulkiness of the hydrosilanc, being highest (95%) with triphenylsilane. 

Another approach in the study of the mechanism and synthetic applications of bromination of alkenes and alkynes involves the use of crystalline bromine-amine complexes such as pyridine hydrobromide perbromide (PyHBts), pyridine dibromide (PyBn), and tetrabutylammonium tribromide (BiMNBn) which show stereochemical differences and improved selectivities for addition to alkenes and alkynes compared to Bn itself.81 The improved selectivity of bromination by PyHBn forms the basis for a synthetically useful procedure for selective monoprotection of the higher alkylated double bond in dienes by bromination (Scheme 42).80 The less-alkylated double bonds in dienes can be selectively monoprotected by tetrabromination followed by monodeprotection at the higher alkylated double bond by controlled-potential electrolysis (the reduction potential of vicinal dibromides is shifted to more anodic values with increasing alkylation Scheme 42).80 The question of which diastereotopic face in chiral allylic alcohols reacts with bromine has been probed by Midland and Halterman as part of a stereoselective synthesis of bromo epoxides (Scheme 43).82... 

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