The asymmetric synthesis of alpha-chiral 1,3-aminoketals 1, useful chiral building blocks for piperidine preparation, was achieved in seven steps involving highly diastereoselective 1,4-addition of Davies' lithium amide to an alpha,beta-unsaturated ester. Problems of partial racernization observed during transformation of the ester moiety into a keto function, via a Weinreb amide, were solved using non-conventional experimental conditions. This procedure allowed the preparation of the title compounds in > 90% enantiomeric excess. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The asymmetric synthesis of alpha-chiral 1,3-aminoketals 1, useful chiral building blocks for piperidine preparation, was achieved in seven steps involving highly diastereoselective 1,4-addition of Davies' lithium amide to an alpha,beta-unsaturated ester. Problems of partial racernization observed during transformation of the ester moiety into a keto function, via a Weinreb amide, were solved using non-conventional experimental conditions. This procedure allowed the preparation of the title compounds in > 90% enantiomeric excess. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The asymmetric synthesis of alpha-chiral 1,3-aminoketals 1, useful chiral building blocks for piperidine preparation, was achieved in seven steps involving highly diastereoselective 1,4-addition of Davies' lithium amide to an alpha,beta-unsaturated ester. Problems of partial racernization observed during transformation of the ester moiety into a keto function, via a Weinreb amide, were solved using non-conventional experimental conditions. This procedure allowed the preparation of the title compounds in > 90% enantiomeric excess. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.