Using amide conformation to ‘project’ the stereochemistry of an (−)-ephedrine-derived oxazolidine: a pair of pseudoenantiomeric chiral amido-phosphine ligands
Protection of a tertiary 2-formylbenzamide as an (-)-ephedrine-derived oxazolidine both Fords the amide's stereogenic Ar-CO axis to adopt one of two possible diastereoisomeric conformations and protects the formyl group from attack during amide ortho-lithiation. By functionalising the amide in the 6-position, reactive sites (such as -CHO, -SR, -PR2 groups) may be introduced which fall under the stereochemical influence, relayed by the amide: of the (-)-ephedrine-derived oxazolidine. This 'projection' of stereochemistry is exemplified by a pair of amido-phosphines. members of the first ever class of non-biaryl atropisomeric ligands, which are made functionally pseudoenantiomeric by the intervention of either one or two amide groups between the (-)-ephedrine-derived oxazolidine and the PPh2 group. The pseudoenantiomeric amido-phosphines promote the palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylation of dimethyl malonate in 82 and -53% e.e., respectively. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
(−)-Ephedrine as an auxiliary for the asymmetric synthesis of atropisomeric amides by dynamic resolution under thermodynamic control
作者:Jonathan Clayden、Lai Wah Lai
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00416-6
日期:2001.4
N,N-Dialkyl-2-formylbenzamides and N,N-dialkyl-2-formyl-1-naphthamides condense with (-)-ephedrine in refluxing toluene to give oxazolidines both as single diastereoisomers with respect to the new stereogenic centre and as single conformers with respect to the slowly-rotating Ar-CONR2 bond. In the naphthamide series, removal of the ephedrine auxiliary by hydrolysis returns the starting aldehyde (isolated by reduction to the more stable alcohol) in enantiomerically enriched form (up to 94% ee). Overall, the two-step sequence amounts to a dynamic resolution under thermodynamic control. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.