Biocatalytic resolutions of methyl sulfinylacetates fford sulfoxides (R)-(1) - (6) in very high optical yields; the products have been used in a systematic study of the “SPAC” reaction, an asymmetric synthesis of γ-hydroxy-α,β-unsaturated esters.
On treatment with pyridine–camphorsulphonic acid, (S)-E-α-p-tolysulphinyl-α-β-enoates (4) undergo enantio-selectively a sequential prototropic shift and allylic sulphoxide–sulphenate rearrangement to produce (R)-E-γ-hydroxy-α,β-enoates (2) in 64–72% optical purity.
Optically active building blocks from the SPAC reaction: a completely asymmetric synthesis of (4S-cis)-5-(cyclohexylmethyl)-4-hydroxy-2-pyrrolidinone, a statine analog
作者:Kevin Burgess、Juanita Cassidy、Ian Henderson
DOI:10.1021/jo00006a017
日期:1991.3
Factors that govern chemical and optical yields of methyl gamma-hydroxy-alpha,beta-unsaturated esters 1 formed in reactions of optically active sulfinylacetates 2 with aldehydes (the ''SPAC'' reaction) are defined. Racemic samples of these chirons (1) can be resolved via acylations mediated by crude preparations of the lipase Pseudomonas K-10 in organic solvents. Combinations of asymmetric SPAC reactions with these biocatalytic resolutions provide routes to highly optically active esters 1 in good yields. This methodology is applied in a completely asymmetric synthesis of (4S-cis)-5-(cyclohexylmethyl)-4-hydroxy-2-pyrrolidinone (15), a cyclic derivative of (3S,4S)-4-amino-5-cyclohexyl-3-hydroxypentanoic acid (ACHPA).
BURGESS, KEVIN;CASSIDY, JUANITA;HENDERSON, IAN, J. ORG. CHEM., 56,(1991) N, C. 2050-2058