A practical improvement of crystallization-induced asymmetric transformation of allene-1,3-dicarboxylates
摘要:
Enantiomerically pure allene-1,3-dicarboxylates were easily synthesized by using epimerization-crystallization of dissymmetric allene compounds, which were prepared from acetone-1,3-dicarboxylates and naturally abundant chiral alcohols, that is, (-)and (+)-menthols, borneol, and isoborneol. After scrutinizing the crystallization of several allene-1,3-dicarboxylates in the presence of triethylamine, it was found that allene-1,3-dicarboxylate carrying bornyl groups was the most easily prepared as a single isomer because of it having suitable solubility to be crystallized in hexane at 0 degrees C to room temperature. Diels-Alder reaction of the enantiomerically pure allene-1,3-dicarboxylates and cyclic dienes, such as N-Boc-pyrrole and cyclopentadiene, afforded endo-adducts having the same configurations at two newly generated stereogenic centers. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A practical improvement of crystallization-induced asymmetric transformation of allene-1,3-dicarboxylates
摘要:
Enantiomerically pure allene-1,3-dicarboxylates were easily synthesized by using epimerization-crystallization of dissymmetric allene compounds, which were prepared from acetone-1,3-dicarboxylates and naturally abundant chiral alcohols, that is, (-)and (+)-menthols, borneol, and isoborneol. After scrutinizing the crystallization of several allene-1,3-dicarboxylates in the presence of triethylamine, it was found that allene-1,3-dicarboxylate carrying bornyl groups was the most easily prepared as a single isomer because of it having suitable solubility to be crystallized in hexane at 0 degrees C to room temperature. Diels-Alder reaction of the enantiomerically pure allene-1,3-dicarboxylates and cyclic dienes, such as N-Boc-pyrrole and cyclopentadiene, afforded endo-adducts having the same configurations at two newly generated stereogenic centers. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Transesterifications of methyl β-keto carboxylates catalyzed by DMAP with various high boiling alcohols can be accomplished in refluxing cyclohexane in a Dean-Stark trap. The MeOH formed is removed completely from the reaction mixture as an azeotrope leading to quantitative conversions. The starting materials are converted in stoichiometric ratio, which makes the purification of the product very simple
(-)-Epibatidine, an excellent candidate of non-opioidal anesthesia, was formally synthesized in short steps from di-(l)-menthyl (R)-allene-1,3-dicarboxylate that was facilely prepared as a single isomer by means of crystallization-induced asymmetric transformation from a diastereomer mixture of (R)- and (S)-allene-1,3-dicarboxylates. Taking advantage of the chiral synthesis, derivatives of (-)-epibatidine
A new efficient synthesis of di-(â)-L-menthyl (R)-allene-1,3-dicarboxylate [(R)-1] involving asymmetric transformation through epimerizationâcrystallization with the assistance of a catalytic amount of Et3N was developed; the highly endo-selective asymmetric DielsâAlder reaction of (R)-1 with N-Boc-pyrrole for the asymmetric synthesis of 7-tert-butoxycarbonyl-7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one [(â)-6], a synthetic intermediate of (â)-epibatidine, is described.