Unexpected Contrasteric Alkylation Leading to a Model for Five-Membered Ring Enolate Alkylation: Short Stereoselective Synthesis of (.+-.)-Acetomycin
作者:Tara J. Sprules、Jean-Francois Lavallee
DOI:10.1021/jo00121a025
日期:1995.8
It is well established that the alkylation of cyclic enolates 1 bearing an asymmetric center at the beta-position should provide mainly lactones 2 where the electrophile (E(+)) ends up trans to the beta-substituent (R(2)). Our interest in such processes lies in the fact that according to this principle, alkylation of 1a with methyl iodide should provide direct access to (+/-)-acetomycin (2a). However, this reaction unexpectedly afforded the contrasteric alkylation product 3a ((+/-)-3-epi-acetomycin) with high diastereoselectivity. To elucidate this observation, alkylation studies have been carried out on various enolates 1. As normally expected, when R(2) and R(3) are alkyl groups, only product 2 is obtained. On the other hand, when R(3) is an acetoxy or an alkoxy group and methyl iodide is used as electrophile, the contrasteric products 3 are predominant. With sterically more demanding electrophiles, the ''normal'' alkylation products 2 are obtained in moderate to extremely high selectivity. Thus, the use of 1,3-dithienium tetrafluoroborate, a bulky methyl equivalent, allowed us to complete a stereoselective synthesis of(+/-)-acetomycin. These results led to the elaboration of a model for five-membered ring enolate alkylation based on steric and stereoelectronic effects, as well as ring conformations.