Sugars nitrone 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions

Fisera L (2007) 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Sugar-Derived Nitrones and their Utilization in Synthesis. 7 287-323... 

Recent research deals with stereoselective 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of nitrones for the syntheses of alkaloids and aza heterocycles asymmetric synthesis of biologically active compounds such as glycosidase inhibitors, sugar mimetics, /3-lactams, and amino acids synthesis of peptido-mimetics and peptides chemistry of spirocyclopropane heterocycles synthesis of organic materials for molecular recognition and photochemical applications. 

The synthesis of these important compounds is very well explored. They can be now prepared almost routinely by a number of methods including the RCM cyclization of the properly activated sugar diolefins, 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones and olefins (recent review ref. 6) or other types of cyclizations. 

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The interesting approach to aza-disaccharides in which the aza-part is linked to normal sugar was proposed by Martin.7 The sugar nitrone 1 reacted with 5-O-allyl-galactofuranoside to afford adduct 2 (Fig. 1). 

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrone 12 (derived from D-glucose) was also used for the preparation of bicyclic aza sugars of type 14 (route a Fig. 5).12 Another classical approach (route b) allowed to prepare the analogs (e.g. 17).13,14... 

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between the sugar nitrone and sugar olefins was proposed54 and an example is shown in Fig. 39.54e... 

Since then, optically active a-aminophosphonates have been obtained by a variety of methods including resolution, asymmetric phosphite additions to imine double bonds and sugar-based nitrones, condensation of optically active ureas with phosphites and aldehydes, catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation, and 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. These approaches have been discussed in a comprehensive review by Dhawan and Redmore.9 More recent protocols involve electrophilic amination of homochiral dioxane acetals,10 alkylation of homochiral imines derived from pinanone11 and ketopinic acid,12 and alkylation of homochiral, bicyclic phosphonamides.13... 

An impressive enantiopure synthesis of Amaryllidaceae alkaloids has been achieved through the formation of sugar-derived homochiral alkenyl nitrone 265 (Fig. 1.7).[280] While this reagent required lengthy preparation, it underwent an intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition to establish the required stereochemistry of the polycyclic pyrrolidine skeleton of (—)-haemanthidine (266), which was converted to (+)-pretazettine and (+)-tazettine by established procedures (281). 

I. Panfil, C. Belzecki, Z. Urbanczyk-Lipkowska, and M. Chmielewski, 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones to sugars enelactones, Tetrahedron 47 10087 (1991). 

Chiral Cyclopentane Synthesis From Sugars Transformation of monosaccharides into enantiomerically pure penta- substituted cyclopentanes via fragmentation and nitrone-olefin dipolar cycloaddition. 

Dipolar cycloadditions between nitrones and alkenes are most useful and convenient for the preparation of isoxazolidine derivatives, which are readily converted to 1,3-amino alcohol equivalents under mild reducing conditions (Tufariello 1984, Torssell 1988). In spite of the importance of chiral amino alcohol units for the synthesis of biologically important alkaloids, amino acids, 3-lactams, and amino sugars, etc. (for a review see Frederickson 1997), catalytic enantioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions remain relatively unexplored (Seerden et al. 1994, 1995, Gothelf and Jorgensen 1994, Gothelf et al. 1996, Hori et al. 1996, Seebach et al. 1996, Jensen et al. 1997). Catalytic enantioselective... 

Dipolar Cycloadditions of Sugar-Derived Nitrones and their Utilization in Synthesis... 

Abstract This review is devoted to the stereoselectivity of intermolecular (intramolecular cycloadditions are not included) 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of sugar-derived nitrones. Stereoselective cycloaddition (transformation of isoxazolidine followed by reduction of the N O bond to produce both an amino and a hydroxy function) allows the synthesis of tailor-made products of possible biological interest such as pol>4iydroxylated pyrrolidines, pyrrolizidines, indolizidines, fi-aminocarbonyl compounds, and disaccharides. Attention is focused on the preparation of isoxazolidinyl nucleosides and to the catalysis of the cycloaddition by Lewis acids. This review has concentrated on the new developments achieved from 1999 to February 2007. 

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