Stereoselectivity anti-selective Michael additions

One problem in the anti-selective Michael additions of A-metalated azomethine ylides is ready epimerization after the stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formation. The use of the camphor imines of ot-amino esters should work effectively because camphor is a readily available bulky chiral ketone. With the camphor auxiliary, high asymmetric induction as well as complete inhibition of the undesired epimerization is expected. The lithium enolates derived from the camphor imines of ot-amino esters have been used by McIntosh s group for asymmetric alkylations (106-109). Their Michael additions to some a, p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds have now been examined, but no diastereoselectivity has been observed (108). It is also known that the A-pinanylidene-substituted a-amino esters function as excellent Michael donors in asymmetric Michael additions (110). Lithiation of the camphor... 

Ono and Kamimura have found a very simple method for the stereo-control of the Michael addition of thiols, selenols, or alcohols. The Michael addition of thiolate anions to nitroalkenes followed by protonation at -78 °C gives anti-(J-nitro sulfides (Eq. 4.8).11 This procedure can be extended to the preparation of a/jti-(3-nitro selenides (Eq. 4.9)12 and a/jti-(3-nitro ethers (Eq. 4.10).13 The addition products of benzyl alcohol are converted into P-amino alcohols with the retention of the configuration, which is a useful method for anri-P-amino alcohols. This is an alternative method of stereoselective nitro-aldol reactions (Section 3.3). The anti selectivity of these reactions is explained on the basis of stereoselective protonation to nitronate anion intermediates. The high stereoselectivity requires heteroatom substituents on the P-position of the nitro group. The computational calculation exhibits that the heteroatom covers one site of the plane of the nitronate anion.14... 

Michael additions of ketone enolates. The stereochemistry of Michael additions of lithium enolates of ketones to a,(3-enones is controlled by the geometry of the enolate. Addition of (Z)-enolates results in anti-products with high diaster-eoselectivity, which is not changed by addition of HMPT. Reaction of (E)-enolates is less stereoselective but tends to favor syn-selectivity, which can be enhanced by addition of HMPT. 

Michael additions [202]. Phosporamide 66 was prepared as an insoluble equivalent for HMPA and was studied for the aldol condensation between trichlorosilyl enol ethers and aldehydes to give keto alcohols 70 (Scheme 10.13). Moderate to good yields and selectivities were obtained. In the presence of 10% of the catalyst at -23 °C the rate was significantly accelerated, albeit the syn/anti stereoselectivity was decreased by a factor of 5 [203]. 

Compared to the aldol addition, the stereochemical scheme is complicated by the fact that the Michael acceptor may not always and not exclusively adopt the -configuration as shown in 421 but also as Z-diastereomer. The effect of this isomerism has been addressed in a fundamental contribution of Corey and Peterson, which is also one of the first applications of an auxiliary-based stereoselective Michael addition. The chiral lithium enolate 425 that was generated from the propionic ester 424 of phenylmenthol by deprotonation was assumed to adopt the enolate in fcr /is-configuration, in accordance with Ireland s model (cf Section 2.1). The reaction of the enolate with ( )- and (Z)-methyl crotonate led to the Michael products sy/i-426 and a f/-427, respectively. The Michael addition to ( )-crotonate was faster at low temperatures than that of the (Z)-diastereomer and provided higher chemical yields as well as syw-anti-selectivity and induced stereoselectivity. A closed, eight-membered transition state model 428 has been proposed that plausibly explains the opposite stereochemical outcome depending on the double-bond configuration of the Michael acceptor. As the rear side is shielded by the bulky 2-phenyl-2-propyl substituent, the attack of both croto-nates occurs at the Si-face of the enolate 425. Whereas Si-face of ( )-crotonate is selected for the addition of the enolate, the attack to (Z)-crotonate occurs predominantly from the e-face (Scheme 4.92) [206]. 

Stereoselective Mukaiyama-Michael reactions, Heathcock et alJ have investigated the syn anti stereoselectivity in the reaction of twelve silyl enol ethers with a variety of acyclic and cyclic enones catalyzed by TiCh or SnCh. Preliminary results suggest that the stereoselectivity is independent of the geometry of the silyl enol ether, and that silyl enol ethers derived from aliphatic ketones show a preference for (2n /-addition ranging from 1.5 1 to 10 1. The preference for a/ift-addition is even higher in the case of (Z)-silyl enol ethers of aromatic ketones (10 1 to >20 1). However, high 5y/i-selectivity is observed with acyclic -butyl enones. 

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