The Cinchona Primary Amine-Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation and Hydroperoxidation of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds with Hydrogen Peroxide
作者:Olga Lifchits、Manuel Mahlau、Corinna M. Reisinger、Anna Lee、Christophe Farès、Iakov Polyak、Gopinadhanpillai Gopakumar、Walter Thiel、Benjamin List
DOI:10.1021/ja402058v
日期:2013.5.1
Using cinchona alkaloid-derived primary amines as catalysts and aqueous hydrogenperoxide as the oxidant, we have developed highly enantioselective Weitz-Scheffer-type epoxidation and hydroperoxidation reactions of α,β-unsaturated carbonylcompounds (up to 99.5:0.5 er). In this article, we present our full studies on this family of reactions, employing acyclic enones, 5-15-membered cyclic enones, and
bromolactones (5) stereoselectively produced by the asymmetric bromolactonisation of (S)-N-(α,β-unsaturated) acylprolines(3), were elaborated to highly opticallyactive 2(R),3(S)-epoxyaldehydes(8)(84–98% ee) by successive epoxide formation and reductive cleavage of the proline moiety. The overall process constitutes a highly efficient asymmetric synthesis of 8 from α,β-unsaturated acids(1).