Stereoselectivity alkylations

Since Our target molecule is acyclic and monofunctional the obvious solutions to our problem are stereoselective alkylations and hydrogenations (see scheme above), e.g. ... 

In the last fifteen years macrolides have been the major target molecules for complex stereoselective total syntheses. This choice has been made independently by R.B. Woodward and E.J. Corey in Harvard, and has been followed by many famous fellow Americans, e.g., G. Stork, K.C. Nicolaou, S. Masamune, C.H. Heathcock, and S.L. Schreiber, to name only a few. There is also no other class of compounds which is so suitable for retrosynthetic analysis and for the application of modem synthetic reactions, such as Sharpless epoxidation, Noyori hydrogenation, and stereoselective alkylation and aldol reactions. We have chosen a classical synthesis by E.J. Corey and two recent syntheses by A.R. Chamberlin and S.L. Schreiber as examples. 

Stereoselective All lations. Ben2ene is stereoselectively alkylated with chiral 4-valerolactone in the presence of aluminum chloride with 50% net inversion of configuration (32). The stereoselectivity is explained by the coordination of the Lewis acid with the carbonyl oxygen of the lactone, resulting in the typ displacement at the C—O bond. Partial racemi2ation of the substrate (incomplete inversion of configuration) results by internal... 

Synthetic utility of stereoselective alkylations in natural product chemistry is exemplified by the preparation of optically active 2-arylglycine esters (38). Chirally specific a-amino acids with methoxyaryl groups attached to the a-carbon were prepared by reaction of the dimethyl ether of a chiral bis-lactam derivative with methoxy arenes. Using SnCl as the Lewis acid, enantioselectivities ranging from 65 to 95% were obtained. 

In view of the ready availabiUty of optically pure lactic acid derivatives this reaction offers an attractive general method for the preparation of optically pure aromatic ester derivatives (41). Stereoselective alkylation (15—60% inversion) of ben2ene with optically active 1,2- 1,3- and 1,5-dihaloalkanes was also reported (42). 

An asymmetric synthesis of estrone begins with an asymmetric Michael addition of lithium enolate (178) to the scalemic sulfoxide (179). Direct treatment of the cmde Michael adduct with y /i7-chloroperbenzoic acid to oxidize the sulfoxide to a sulfone, followed by reductive removal of the bromine affords (180, X = a and PH R = H) in over 90% yield. Similarly to the conversion of (175) to (176), base-catalyzed epimerization of (180) produces an 85% isolated yield of (181, X = /5H R = H). C8 and C14 of (181) have the same relative and absolute stereochemistry as that of the naturally occurring steroids. Methylation of (181) provides (182). A (CH2)2CuLi-induced reductive cleavage of sulfone (182) followed by stereoselective alkylation of the resultant enolate with an allyl bromide yields (183). Ozonolysis of (183) produces (184) (wherein the aldehydric oxygen is by isopropyUdene) in 68% yield. Compound (184) is the optically active form of Ziegler s intermediate (176), and is converted to (+)-estrone in 6.3% overall yield and >95% enantiomeric excess (200). 

A-Acyliminium precursors in tetracarbonyliron-mediated stereoselective alkylations of 5-(R)-isopropoxy-3-pyrrolin-3-ones 98EJ01729. 

Five- and six-membered sulfoxides were shown to be alkylated with high stereoselecti-vities70,76. Marquet and coworkers137 applied this reaction to synthesize di-biotin 105 by stereoselective alkylation of sulfoxide 104. 

Alternative routes to -amino acids have also been explored and involve, stereoselective alkylation of chiral derivatives of y9-alanine [136-140], Curtius rearrangement of enantiomerically pure and regioselectively protected substituted-succinic acids [134, 141, 142] (the approach is also suitable for the synthesis of y9 -amino acids [143]), or the formation of chiral isoxazolidinone intermediates [144]. 

Another stereoselective -alkylation was found by Posner and coworkers in the treatment of (5)-(-f-)-( )-1-octenyl sulfoxide 190 and (S)-(+)-( )-1-propenyl sulfoxide... 

A new chiral auxiliary based on a camphor-derived 8-lactol has been developed for the stereoselective alkylation of glycine enolate in order to give enantiomerically pure a-amino acid derivatives. As a key step for the synthesis of this useful auxiliary has served the rc-selective hydroformylation of a homoallylic alcohol employing the rhodium(I)/XANTPHOS catalyst (Scheme 11) [56]. 

Asymmetric aromatic VNS of hydrogen has been reported the enolates of chiral cyclohexyl-phenylsulfanylacetates react readily with 3-chloronitrobenzene, followed by subsequent stereoselective alkylation (Eq. 9.38).65... 

Extrusion of sulphur dioxide from cyclic systems leading to dienes has proved to be a synthetically useful reaction112. Thermolysis of cis- and fraw,s-2,5-disubstituted sulp-holenes, which can be readily obtained through regio- and stereoselective alkylation, proceeds in a stereospecific manner affording 1,3-dienes of high stereochemical purity, as predicted by symmetry rules (equations 68 and 69)113. On the other hand, a photochemical process is not completely stereospecific (equation 68)114. 2,5-Dialkylative cyclization... 

The examples shown in Scheme 5 demonstrate the potential utility of these stereoselective alkylation technologies in synthesis. Thus, preparation of rac-14 through catalytic RCM of rac-13 (85% yield) and subsequent Zr-catalyzed resolution of the resulting racemic TBS-protected oxepin affords (S)-23 after silyl group deprotection. Diastereoselective alkylation with nBuMgBr affords (S)-24... 

The availability of oxepins that bear a side chain containing a Lewis basic oxygen atom (entry 2, Table 6.4) has further important implications in enantioselective synthesis. The derived alcohol, benzyl ether, or methoxyethoxymethyl (MEM) ethers, in which resident Lewis basic heteroatoms are less sterically hindered, readily undergo diastereoselective uncatalyzed alkylation reactions when treated with a variety of Grignard reagents [17]. The examples shown below (Scheme 6.7) demonstrate the excellent synthetic potential of these stereoselective alkylations. 

The bulky N-anthracenylmethyl group clearly plays a key role in the efficient stereoselective alkylation. The steric screening would be provided by the N-anthracenylmethyl group and the tight ion pair 28 from the ammonium cation (N+) and the enolate (0 ) would be stereoselectively alkylated as shown in Figure 3.1241 Furthermore, removal of the quinoline ring proved to be not useful to attain the good enantioselectivity.1261... 

The same nitrone 241 was employed in a stereoselective alkylation with a Grignard reagent by Petrini et al. <1995JOC5706> for another synthesis of lentiginosine. 

Stereoselective alkylations, 12 165-166 Stereoselective hydrolysis, 16 400 Stereoselective propene polymerization, catalyst symmetries for, 16 104 Stereoselectivity, in a-olefin insertion, 16 99-102... 

The actual synthesis (Scheme 21) started with the stereoselective alkylation of Myers hydroxy-amide 131 [40] followed by reductive removal of the auxiliary to give 132 in high yield and enantioselectivity. Wittig olefination furnished enoate 133, which was then elaborated into the (E)-l-acetoxy-diene 129 using... 

Since the formation of optically active, dioxolanone-based di-enolates was not successful, a consecutive alkylation strategy was developed for a short synthesis of (-)-wikstromol (ent-3) from (-)-malic acid (99) (Scheme 25). The first alkylation reaction was analogous to that reported for the enantioselective total synthesis of (-)-meridinol (97). In order to avoid a reduction/re-oxidation sequence and an almost unselective second alkylation, two disadvantages of the synthesis of meridinol (97) [55], we planned to use a different strategy for the second alkylation. Therefore, we have focused our strategy on two stereoselective alkylation reactions, one of dialkyl malates and one of a dioxolanone prepared thereof. Both alkylation reactions were previously described by Seebach and coworker [56, 63, 64]. The... 

Ahlbrecht and coworkers showed that the stereoselective alkylation of Af-cinnamyl (5 )-2-methoxymethylpyrrolidine (STdR), followed by hydrolysis, affords enantiomerically enriched 3-substituted phenylpropionaldehydes, as shown in Scheme 45. This method is analogous to the asymmetric alkylation of S AMP/RAMP hydrazones, as the anions are isoelectronic. The mechanisms of asymmetric induction for the two systems are probably similar. For the lithio cinnamyl amine, methylation can be optimized up to 97.5% ds. Most of the procedures in this paper include potassium tert-butoxide, so the cation in these examples may be potassium. Under these conditions, methyl, primary and secondary alkyl iodides typically afford the products with selectivities in the 90-93% ds range. 

Two conceptually different approaches to the tra 5-4-cyclohexylproline fragment have been disclosed by the Squibb process group. The first route relies on a stereoselective alkylation for installation of the cyclohexyl substituent (Thottathil et al., 1986). L-Pyroglutamic acid (62) was reduced using literature methods to give the hydroxymethyl... 

Stereoselective alkylation with aliphatic bromides and iodides of the Schiff bases of tert-butyl glycinate with (—)-(15,25,55)-2-hydroxypinan-3-one or (+)-(lR,2R,5R)-2-hydroxy-pinan-3-one 150 was reported to produce lipidated amino acids as d- and L-enantiomers in 80 to over 90% ee. 151 Similarly, the asymmetric synthesis of a derivative of arachidonic acid (4) has also been reported. The pure enantiomer was obtained via regioselective functionalization of a chirally pure glutamic acid. 152 ... 

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