Stereospecific formation of tetrasubstituted centres from trisubstituted centres during dearomatising anionic cyclisations
摘要:
Dearomatising anionic cyclisation of tertiary naphthamides bearing chiral N-substituents (such as alpha-methylbenzyl) proceeds with overall retention of configuration at the newly formed tetrasubstituted chiral centre. The cyclisation is stereospecific overall, with the configuration of the starting trisubstituted stereogenic centre controlling the stereochemistry of the product. Highly substituted pyrrolidinone rings may be formed as single enantiomers from enantiomerically pure starting materials. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Stereodynamics of Bond Rotation in Tertiary Aromatic Amides
摘要:
The degree to which the rotations about the C-N and Ar-CO bonds of aromatic amides occur in a concerted manner was investigated by a variety of NMR and kinetic techniques. Otherwise complex kinetic analyses were simplified by exploiting symmetry and asymmetry in the N-substituents of amides. In 2-unsubstituted 1-naphthamides bearing branched N-substituents, most conformational changes about the amide group were by correlated rotation, though uncorrelated Ar-CO rotation also occurred to some extent. In 2-substituted 1-naphthamides, correlated rotation accounted for all of the Ar-CO rotations, though a significant amount of uncorrelated C-N rotation also occurred. Naphthamides bearing branched N-substituents thus turn out to be efficient molecular gears.
Dearomatising cyclisation of lithiated 1-naphthamides with a phenylglycinol-derived chiral auxiliary: asymmetric synthesis of an arylkainoid and a kainoid-like pyroglutamate
作者:Ryan A Bragg、Jonathan Clayden、Michael Bladon、Osamu Ichihara
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00502-0
日期:2001.5
N-benzylphenylglycinols undergo a diastereoselective dearomatising cyclisation on treatment with t-BuLi and DMPU or HMPA. A new pyrrolidinone ring is formed bearing three new stereogenic centers of defined absolute stereochemistry. Removal of the phenylglycinol auxiliary gives enantiomerically pure substituted lactams exhibiting the stereochemistry of the kainoids. These may be converted to kainoid-like pyroglutamates
‘meso-Selective’ functionalisation of N-benzyl-α-methylbenzylamine derivatives by α-lithiation and alkylation
作者:Ryan A Bragg、Jonathan Clayden、Christel J Menet
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(02)00154-5
日期:2002.3
Lithiation and methylation of amide and carbamate derivatives of alpha-methylbenzylamine proceeds with high diastereoselectivity in favour of meso bis-alpha-methylbenzylamine derivatives, Carboxylation of the intermediate organolithium is also diastereoselective, and with N-Boc p-methoxy-alpha-methylbenzylamine as starting material, oxidative cleavage provides a new asymmetric route to phenylglycine. Other electrophiles give a range of stereochemical outcomes, apparently depending on the stereospecificity of their reactions with a pair of diastereoisomeric organolithiums of low to moderate configurational stability. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.