Sulfone enantioselective

Zhu Q, Lu YX. Organocatalytic Michael addition of aldehydes to vinyl sulfones enantioselective a-alkylations of aldehydes and their derivatives. Org. Lett. 2008 10(21) 4803 806. 

E The writing has again been revised at the sentence level, streamlining the presentation, improving explanations, and updating a thousand small details. Several little-used reactions have been deleted (the alkali fusion of arene-sulfonic acids to give phenols, for instance), and a few new ones have been added (the Sharpless enantioselective epoxidation of alkene.s, for instance). 

Ohta and coworkers used a bacterium, Corynebacterium equi IFO 3730, rather than a fungus, to oxidize eight alkyl phenyl and p-tolyl sulfides to their respective sulfoxides (119, 120) of configuration R. Virtually all of the sulfur compounds were accounted for as the sum of uncreacted sulfide, sulfoxide and sulfone. The enantiomeric purities of the sulfoxides obtained were quite good and are shown below in parentheses. The formation of the allyl sulfoxides in high optical purity is noteworthy. The authors believe that the sulfoxides were formed by enantioselective oxidation of the sulfides rather than by enantioselective oxidation of racemic sulfoxides, since the yield of sulfoxides was greater than 50% in five of the ten oxidations reported (see also Reference 34). 

Addition of Lithiated Sulfoxides and Sulfones Nucleophilic addition of lithiated methylaryl sulfoxides (384) to nitrones of various structures proceeds easily and in good yields (622). The reactions are applied to the synthesis of optically active a-substituted and a,a-disubstituted hydroxylamines, to secondary amines (623), and to enantioselective syntheses of alkaloids (624). The preferred approach to (+ )-euphococcinine is based on the use of homochiral 3-sullinyl nitrones (385) (Scheme 2.167). 

A novel procedure for the synthesis of an indole skeleton 81 was developed by Mori s group (Scheme 13).16e,16f Enantioselective allylic amination of 78 with A-sulfonated < r/ < -bromoaniline 79 followed by Heck cyclization of 80 provided chiral indoline 81. The treatment of a cyclohexenol derivative 78 with 79 in the presence of Pd2(dba)3-GHGl3 and ( )-BINAPO gave compound 80 with 84% ee in 75% yield. Total syntheses of (—)-tubifoline, (—)-dehydrotubifoline, and (—)-strychnine were achieved from compound 80. 

BINAP-Ru catalysts also show high enantioselectivity in the hydrogenation of/ -keto sulfonates. Reaction of sodium yS-keto sulfonates with (R)-BINAP-Ru catalyst quantitatively gives the (R)-/1-hydroxy sulfonates in up to 97% ee (Fig. 32.21) [15]. In the same manner, hydrogenation of / -keto sulfones in the presence of an (R)-MeO-BIPHEP-Ru catalyst affords the (R)-hydroxy sulfones in >95% ee [71]. 

Enantioselective hydrogenation of yS-keto sulfones in the presence of (S,S)-tartaric acid modified Raney Ni gives the S alcohols in up to 71% ee (Fig. 32.23)... 

Enantioselectivities >90% were reported for a Ti-ebthi catalyst (Table 34.4 entry 4.1) and for some Rh-diphosphine complexes (entries 4.2-4.4). Interestingly, the highest ee-values were obtained using sulfonated diphosphines (bdppsuif) in an aqueous biphasic medium (entry 4.3). The degree of sulfonation strongly affected the enantioselectivity the Rh-mono-sulfonated bdpp gave 94% ee, compared to 65% ee with Rh-bdpp in MeOH, and almost racemic product with bis-or tris-sulfonated ligands. In addition, the activity of the mono-sulfonated cata-... 

It has been reported that the hydrogenation of imine ArC(Me)=NCH2Ph proceeds with enantioselectivity of up to 96% when Rh(I)-sulfonated BDPP is used in a two-phase system. However, the asymmetric reaction of ON bonds with ruthenium(II) catalyst is rather rare.99 Willoughby and Buchwald100 demonstrated a titanocene catalyst that shows good to excellent enantioselectivity in the hydrogenation of imine. 

Scheme 7 Enantioselective hydrogen atom transfer to sulfones...

There is huge potential in the combination of biocatalysis and electrochemistry through reaction engineering as the linker. An example is a continuous electrochemical enzyme membrane reactor that showed a total turnover number of 260 000 for the enantioselective peroxidase catalyzed oxidation of a thioether into its sulfone by in situ cathodic generated hydrogen peroxide - much higher than achieved by conventional methods [52],... 

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