Stereoselective synthesis nucleophilic epoxidations

Jackson and coworkers have used a new approach to the synthesis of fi-hydtoxy-ct-amino acids using farylthio nitrooxiranes. c-Jsopropylideneglyceraldehyde is converted into the corresponding 1-arylthio-l-nitroalkene, which is a key material for stereoselective synthesis of fi,Y-dihydroxyamino acids fScheme 4.6. The key step is stereoselective nucleophilic epoxlda-donof the Tarylthio-Tnltroalkene. Sy)i and ruin epoxides are selecdvely obtained by appropriate choice of epoxidadon reagent." ... 

The stereoselective synthesis of awri-P-amino-a-hydroxy acid derivatives using nucleophilic epoxidation of 1-arytlthio-l-nitroalkenes has been reported (Eq. 4.41).54... 

R. Schwesinger, J. Willaredt, Epoxidation of Nucleophilic C—C Double Bonds , in Stereoselective Synthesis (Houben-Weyl) 4th ed. 1996, (G. Helmchen, R. W. Hoffinann, J. Mulzer, E. Schaumann, Eds.), 1996, Vol. E21 (Workbench Edition), 8, 4600 4648, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 

Thermal degradation led to the oxo compounds including [(N02)N0)][Ti0(F3CS03)4], Tilv triflate complexes efFiciently catalyze a variety of reactions including the conversion of acetophenones to 1,3,5-triarylbenzenes,658 the nucleophilic ring opening of epoxides,659 Diels—Alder reactions,660 selective Claisen and Dieckmann ester condensations,661 esterification reactions,662 Fries rearrangements,663 homoaldol reactions,664 sequential cationic and anionic polymerizations,641 and the stereoselective synthesis of m-arabinofuranosides.606... 

If the 7-substituent in the starting norbornenone has anti orientation with respect to the carbonyl group, the nucleophilic addition occurs from the exo face. However, transformation to the allylsilanes and stereospecific epoxidation lead to the required alcohol with the vinyl group endo, as demonstrated by the stereoselective synthesis of dihydronepetalactone 591071. 

The chloroacetoxylation approach was also used for the stereoselective synthesis of tropine and pseudotropine employing a sulfonamide as the nucleophile [91]. Using the same approach, scopine and pseudoscopine were synthesized (Scheme 11.26) [92]. The chloroacetoxylation of 6-benzyloxy-l,3-cycloheptadiene was highly diastereoselective, and produced only the diastereoisomer 73 shown. Transformation of the chloroacetate 73 to 74 was realized by a Pd(0)-catalyzed substitution of the chloride by a sulfonamide, which occurred with retention of configuration. Reaction of the aUyUc chloride with the sulfonamide salt in DMSO-water at 80 °C afforded the inversion product 75. Subsequent stereoselective epoxidation, cyclization, and deprotection afforded the target molecules scopine and pseudoscopine. 

The epoxidation of enones and enoates can be effected with hydrogen peroxide under alkaline conditions [18], a reaction commonly referred to as nucleophile epoxidation. The chemo- and stereoselective synthesis of the pregnenolone-derived epoxide 8 demonstrates an application of this approach (dr=98 2, Equation 4) [53]. 

Silyl ethers serve as preeursors of nucleophiles and liberate a nucleophilic alkoxide by desilylation with a chloride anion generated from CCI4 under the reaction conditions described before[124]. Rapid intramolecular stereoselective reaction of an alcohol with a vinyloxirane has been observed in dichloro-methane when an alkoxide is generated by desilylation of the silyl ether 340 with TBAF. The cis- and tru/u-pyranopyran systems 341 and 342 can be prepared selectively from the trans- and c/.y-epoxides 340, respectively. The reaction is applicable to the preparation of 1,2-diol systems[209]. The method is useful for the enantioselective synthesis of the AB ring fragment of gambier-toxin[210]. Similarly, tributyltin alkoxides as nucleophiles are used for the preparation of allyl alkyl ethers[211]. 

Evans developed a new method for the synthesis of [(-C-allylglycosides, based on BusSnOTf-mediated ring-opening of glycal epoxides with allylstannanes as nucleophiles [81a], This methodology has been efficiently used in the (3-stereoselective introduction of the side chain (C44-C51) of spongistatin 2 (Scheme 8.43) [81b,c]. 

Epoxides are extremely useful intermediates in organic synthesis since they react with a variety of nucleophiles suffering opening of the epoxide ring with retention or inversion of configuration at the carbon undergoing attack. Thus, the development of highly stereoselective methods for the synthesis of certain chiral epoxides, such as the methods under discussion, has enabled the asymmetric synthesis of a wide variety of 1,2-bifunctional compounds. 

Allyl- and vinylsilane chemistry was one of the first areas of reagent synthesis impacted by CM methodology. Allylsilanes are commonly employed in nucleophilic additions to carbonyl compounds, epoxides, and Michael acceptors (the Sakurai reaction) vinylsilanes are useful reagents for palladium-coupling reactions. As the ubiquitous application of CM to this substrate class has recently been described in several excellent reviews, this topic will not be discussed in detail, with the exception of the use of silane moieties to direct CM stereoselectivity (previously discussed in Section 11.06.3.2). 

Treatment of vinylsilane epoxides with nucleophiles followed by acid promoted anti-elimination or base-promoted syn elimination gives the corresponding Z- or E-alkenes 174, respectively (equation 148)262,263. A similar approach has been employed for the synthesis of exo-brevicomin 175 (equation 149)264. Allylsilanes are obtained stereoselectively under similar conditions when Li2Cu(CN)(CH2SiMe3)2 is employed as the nucleophile265. 

In this synthesis (Scheme 6), the C2-symmetri-cal triacetonide of D-mannitol (32) is converted via the epoxide 33 and its nucleophilic addition product 34 to the propargylic alcohol derivative 35. From this intermediate, the Z-configured vinyl iodide 36 is stereoselectively obtained by hydroalumination/iodination. The Pd-catalyzed Heck cyclization then affords the isomerically pure product 37, which represents a potential building block for the synthesis of la,2y5,25-trihy-droxy-vitamin D, following the classical Wittig strategy of Lythgoe. 

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