Asymmetric Acylation of <i>s</i><i>ec</i>-Alcohols with Twisted Amides Possessing Axial Chirality Induced by the Adjacent Asymmetric Center
作者:Shinji Yamada、Hiroko Katsumata
DOI:10.1021/jo990892p
日期:1999.12.1
This paper reports that axially chiral twisted amides serve as asymmetric acylating agents for sec-alcohols under neutral conditions. Kinetic resolution of various racemic sec-alcohols and desymmetrization of 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-meso-diols were performed by using the twisted amides. The utility of this desymmetrization method was shown by the preparation of the synthetic intermediate 28 for macrolide antibiotic nodusmicin and 18-deoxynargenicin. The stereoselectivity of the acylation reactions is significantly dependent on the bulkiness of both the acyl group and the C-4 substituent of the chiral auxiliary. When an amide possessing an imidazolyl group at C-4 was employed, the stereoselectivity was reversed to give R esters. A possible working model of the acylation reaction is also described on the basis of the structural studies of the twisted amides by IR and H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopies and AM1 calculations. These studies suggested that rotamer II is thermodynamically more stable than the others. The rotamer II has an axial chirality about its C(O)-N linkage that is induced by the adjacent chiral center. This would enable discrimination of the two enantiomeric hydroxy groups of the racemic alcohols or meso-diols.