Vinyl sulfoxides synthesis

The method employing the sequential alkylation and elimination of sulfoxides, reported above, has been successfully applied to the synthesis of dienes (Scheme 86, entry c), aryl alkenes and dienes (Scheme 47), vinyl sulfides, a,3-unsaturated sulfoxides, vinyl fluorides and vinyl chlorides (Scheme 96, entry a), and 1,1-dichloro-l-alkenes (Scheme 96, entry b). ... 

Battace, A., Zair, T., Doucet, H. and Santelli, M. (2006) Heck vinylations using vinyl sulfide, vinyl sulfoxide, vinyl sulfone, or vinyl sulfonate derivatives and aryl bromides catal3raed by a palladium complex derived from a tetraphosphine. Synthesis, 3495 505. 

Besides simple alkyl-substituted sulfoxides, (a-chloroalkyl)sulfoxides have been used as reagents for diastereoselective addition reactions. Thus, a synthesis of enantiomerically pure 2-hydroxy carboxylates is based on the addition of (-)-l-[(l-chlorobutyl)sulfinyl]-4-methyl-benzene (10) to aldehydes433. The sulfoxide, optically pure with respect to the sulfoxide chirality but a mixture of diastereomers with respect to the a-sulfinyl carbon, can be readily deprotonated at — 55 °C. Subsequent addition to aldehydes afforded a mixture of the diastereomers 11A and 11B. Although the diastereoselectivity of the addition reaction is very low, the diastereomers are easily separated by flash chromatography. Thermal elimination of the sulfinyl group in refluxing xylene cleanly afforded the vinyl chlorides 12 A/12B in high chemical yield as a mixture of E- and Z-isomers. After ozonolysis in ethanol, followed by reductive workup, enantiomerically pure ethyl a-hydroxycarboxylates were obtained. 

G. H. Posner, Addition of Organometallic Reagents to Chiral Vinyl Sulfoxides in Asymmetric Synthesis. J. D. Morrison, Ed. Vol. 2, p. 225, Academic, New York 1983. 

This procedure, which involves the addition of an anion derived from a nitrile to an unactivated acetylenic bond under rather mild conditions, is a convenient general method for the synthesis of a-vinyl-nitriles (see Table I). The reaction proceeds smoothly in either dimethyl sulfoxide or hexamethylphosphoric triamide (see p. 103 for warning) as solvent with a tetraalkylam monium salt as catalyst. The products thus prepared are obtained in yields higher2 than those obtained under conventional conditions, which generally require higher temperatures and elevated pressures.3-4... 

Alkenyl sulfoxides (42 and 43) were first prepared in optically active form by Mulvaney and Ottaviani , described in an article overlooked by most workers in the field, and a year later by Stirling and coworkers through the reaction of the appropriate vinyl Grignard reagent with sulfinate ester 19. Both groups studied the addition of nucleophiles to the carbon-carbon double bond . More recently, Posner and coworkers reported a similar synthesis of ( )-l-alkenyl sulfoxides, e.g. 44 and In the synthesis of 45,... 

We have developed the efficient synthesis of the SERM drug candidate 1 and successfully demonstrated the process on a multiple kilogram scale to support the drug development program. A novel sulfoxide-directed borane reduction of vinyl sulfoxides was discovered. The mechanistic details of this novel reaction were explored and a plausible mechanism proposed. The sequence of asymmetric oxidation of vinyl sulfoxides followed by stereospecific borane reduction to make chiral dihydro-1,4-benzoxathiins was applied to the asymmetric synthesis of a number of other dihydro-1,4-benzoxathiins including the sweetening agent 67. 

Various chiral dipolarophiles have been used in the asymmetric synthesis of hexahydro-isoxazolo[2,3- ]pyridines. Examples include // / -2-methylcnc-l, 3-dithiolane 1,3-dioxide 83 <1998JOC3481>, chiral vinyl sulfoxide 85 <1997TA109>, or chiral dioxolanes <2001TA1747> (Scheme 27). 

Bicyclo-y-butyrolactones.1 The reaction of ketenes with chiral vinyl sulfoxides to obtain optically pure -y-arylsulfanylbutyrolactones (12,177) can be extended to a synthesis of bicyclic butyrolactones. Thus the arylsulfanyl group of 1 undergoes... 

Diastereoselective reactions of azomethine ylides with chiral vinyl sulfoxides have also been conducted (Scheme 12.35) (162-164). The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of (R)s-p-tolyl vinyl sulfoxide (106) with l-methyl-3-oxidopyridinum (105) gave three of the four possible diastereomers, and one of these isomers 107 was used for the enantioselective synthesis of the (75)-(—)-2a-tropanol 108 (162). 

The CM of vinyl sulfones is of great synthetic value, as a,/ -unsaturated sulfones are becoming increasingly utilized in stereocontrolled organic synthesis.The compatibility of remote sulfone and sulfoxide moieties in RCM and is well established. However, initial attempts to employ catalyst 3 in the CM of methyl vinyl sulfones... 

TABLE 3. Synthesis of bicyclo [ .1.0]alkanes (82) from 1-chloro-vinyl p-tolyl sulfoxides (80) with lithium enolate of tert-butyl acetate, propionate and hexanoate through the adduct (81)... 

The synthesis from 5-benzyloxymethyl-l,3-cyclopentadiene and (/ )-p-tolyl vinyl sulfoxide of the ketone (6), a key intermediate in the Corey prostaglandin synthesis, nicely illustrates these methodologies [530],... 

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