Sulfonyl Mannich reaction

Enamine nucleophiles react readily with soft conjugated electrophiles, such as a, 3-unsaturated carbonyl, nitro, and sulfonyl compounds [20-22], Both aldehydes and ketones can be used as donors (Schemes 27 and 28). These Michael-type reactions are highly useful for the construction of carbon skeletons and often the yields are very high. The problem, however, is the enantioselectivity of the process. Unlike the aldol and Mannich reactions, where even simple proline catalyst can effectively direct the addition to the C = O or C = N bond by its carboxylic acid moiety, in conjugate additions the charge develops further away from the catalyst (Scheme 26) ... 

In CHEC-II(1996) the detailed discussion of thiophenes as intermediates was, somewhat arbitrarily, limited to photochemical and electrocyclic processes. Additionally, reactions were included which destroy the aromatic thiophene skeleton to give rise to open chain molecules. In this scheme very recent applications of thiophenes such as thiophene-based amide linkers in solid-phase synthesis <2006JOC6734> or V-(2-thienyl)sulfonyl aldimins in chiral Mannich reactions <2006OL2977> did not be fit in. 

Pyrrole Mannich bases have been transformed into the tertiary ammonium salt as a good leaving group. Therefore, treatment of the quaternary ammonium salt with sodium sulfinate to give the corresponding sulfonyl pyrrole, which in turn, could undergo another Mannich reaction to synthesize sulfonyl pyrrole Mannich bases as germicides. ... 

The reversibility problem in 1,2-additions is alleviated when imines bearing an electron-poor protecting group at nitrogen (sulfonyl, aeyl, ear-bamoyl) are employed as aeceptor partners, rendering possible even the use of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds as donors. For example, Sehaus and eoworkers reported the highly enantioselective Mannich reaction of acetoacetates and cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with N-carbamoyl imines derived from benzaldehydes and cinnamaldehydes catalysed by the natural Cinchona alkaloid cinchonine (CN) (Scheme 14.15). On the basis of the obtained results they developed a model that accounts for the observed diastereo- and enantioselectivity based on the bifunctional nature of the catalyst, which acts simultaneously as a hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor. 

Shibata and Tom used this strategy for a highly enantioselective mono-fluoromethylation by an asymmetric Mannich reaction using 1-fluorobi-s(phenylsulfonyl)methane (FBSM) with quinidine-derived catalyst 49c and subsequent removal of the sulfonyl group by treatment with magnesium powder (99% enantiomeric excess). Palomo and coworkers used sulfonyl acetonitrile as a synthetic equivalent of acetonitrile and obtained the optically active p-aminonitriles 97 (76% enantiomeric excess). Bernard , Ricci, and coworkers also introduced the same strategy to synthesise N-protected p -amino acid esters 98 (R = Ph, 92% enantiomeric excess) and a-alkylidene-p-aminoesters 99 (R = Ph, 91% enantiomeric excess) by an asymmetric Mannich reaction of sulfonylacetate followed by the subsequent reductive removal of the sulfonyl moiety and olefination with formaldehyde, respectively (Scheme 16.32). ... 

H. Yang, R. G. Carter, J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 2246-2249. Enantioselective Mannich reactions with the practical prohne mimetic N-(p-dodecylphenyl-sulfonyl)-2-pytrohdinecarboxamide. 

In 2007, Ooi and coworkers introduced chiral tetraaminophosphonium salts as a new class of Bronsted acids [166]. Similar to the guanidine/guanidinium case, these tetraaminophosphonium salts act as Bronsted bases in their neutral/ deprotonated (triaminoiminophosphorane) form, while they can also be used as mono-functional Bronsted acids in their protonated, phosphonium form. Phos-phonium salt 67, when neutralized in situ with KO Bu, was shown to be a highly effective catalyst in the enantioselective Henry reaction of nitroalkanes with various aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes (Scheme 10.65). The same strategy was further applied to the catalytic asymmetric Henry reaction of ynals [167] and hydrophosphonylation of ynones (Scheme 10.66) [168]. Brfunctional catalysis using this scaffold were also obtained using the carboxylate salts of tetraaminophosphoniums in the direct Mannich reaction of sulfonyl imines with azlactones (Scheme 10.67) [169]. 

Scheme 10.67 Enantioselective Mannich reaction of sulfonyl imines with aziactones.

Mannich reaction 279 N-sulfonyl imines 187 sulfonylated prolinamide 623 sulfonylation 1256 -asymmetric 1257 P-sulfonyl acetonitrile 867 N-sulfonyl imines 862 sulfoxides 389,1256... 

A silyl-substituted ynolate 141 undergoes cycloaddition to A-sulfonyl aldimines 142, followed by ring opening, to afford the a,p-unsaturated amide 143 at 20 °C (Fig. 52) [39]. This stereoselectivity is unexpected for the torquoselective olefination. The steric interaction between bulky MeaSi and the phenyl groups may be critical. A-o-Methoxyphenylaldimines 144 with ynolates at room temperature produce a,(3-unsaturated amides 145 in good yield with high -selectivity (Fig. 53) [122], Since the double adduct 146 is produced as an intermediate, the process involves the retro-Mannich reaction. 

Scheme 10.34 Cu-catalysed Mannich-type reactions of A -sulfonyl imines with Fes-ulphos ligand.

In recent years, catalytic asymmetric Mukaiyama aldol reactions have emerged as one of the most important C—C bond-forming reactions [35]. Among the various types of chiral Lewis acid catalysts used for the Mukaiyama aldol reactions, chirally modified boron derived from N-sulfonyl-fS)-tryptophan was effective for the reaction between aldehyde and silyl enol ether [36, 37]. By using polymer-supported N-sulfonyl-fS)-tryptophan synthesized by polymerization of the chiral monomer, the polymeric version of Yamamoto s oxazaborohdinone catalyst was prepared by treatment with 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl boron dichloride ]38]. The polymeric chiral Lewis acid catalyst 55 worked well in the asymmetric aldol reaction of benzaldehyde with silyl enol ether derived from acetophenone to give [i-hydroxyketone with up to 95% ee, as shown in Scheme 3.16. In addition to the Mukaiyama aldol reaction, a Mannich-type reaction and an allylation reaction of imine 58 were also asymmetrically catalyzed by the same polymeric catalyst ]38]. 

Carretero and coworkers have successfully employed a copper(I)-Fesulphos complex as a Lewis acid for enantioselective Mannich-type reactions of N-sulfonyl imines [43]. A combination of [151 CuBr]2 and AgCl04 does efficiently catalyze the addition of silyl enol ethers of ketones, esters, and thioesters (150) to N-(2-thienyl)sulfonyl aldimines (Scheme 17.30). The corresponding P-amino carbonyl derivatives (152) were isolated in good yields with generally good enan-tioselectivity. 

In 2009, Feng and coworkers developed new guanidine catalysts with an amino amide skeleton [139]. Among the various catalysts tested, guanidine 49 was found to be the most active for the enantioselective Michael reaction of a (i-ketoester with nitroolefins (Scheme 10.46). The conjugate addition products were obtained in high yields and excellent diastereo- and enantioselectivities. The same researchers used bis-guanidine catalysts for the enantioselective inverse-electron-demand hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of chalcones with azlactones (Scheme 10.47) [140] and enantioselective Mannich-type reaction of a-isothiocyanato imide and sulfonyl imines (Scheme 10.48) [141]. 

Scheme 10.48 Mannich-type reaction of Ot-isothiocyanato imide and sulfonyl imines.

Newly designed chiral tetraaminophosphonium salt 184 possessing an organic anion cooperatively catalyzes asymmetric Mannich-type reaction of azlactones (182) with N-sulfonyl imines (183) (Scheme 28.20). The basic carboxylate anion deprotonates the active methine proton of the azlactone (182) to form the corresponding chiral phosphonium enolate with a defined hydrogen bonding network (ion pair), and then highly stereoselective bond formation proceeds [92]. 

An efficient asymmetric Mannich-type reaction of ct-cyano-a-sulfonyl carbanions has been achieved by exploiting the structural modularity and anion recognition ability of chiral 1,2,3-triazolium ions (7). This protocol has proved to be applicable to a variety of A-Boc imines and cyanosulfones, affording -amino-a-cyanosulfones in excellent yields with high stereoselectivities. 

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