Synthesis of Chiral Cyclic Alcohols from Chiral Epoxides by H or N Substitution with Frontside Displacement
Diverse examples are provided of enantioselective sequences for the transformation of cycloalkenes to either chiral trans-β-substituted cycloalkanols or chiral α-amino ketones.
Da Silva Gomes, Roberto,Reddy, Karla Mahender,Corey
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p. 6310 - 6313
(2018/10/09)
Asymmetric Induction via a Helically Chiral Anion: Enantioselective Pentacarboxycyclopentadiene Br?nsted Acid-Catalyzed Inverse-Electron-Demand Diels-Alder Cycloaddition of Oxocarbenium Ions
An enantioselective catalytic inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction of salicylaldehyde acetal-derived oxocarbenium ions and vinyl ethers to generate 2,4-dioxychromanes is described. Chiral pentacarboxycyclopentadiene (PCCP) acids are found to be effective for a variety of substrates. Computational and X-ray crystallographic analyses support the unique hypothesis that an anion with point-chirality-induced helical chirality dictates the absolute sense of stereochemistry in this reaction.
Gheewala, Chirag D.,Hirschi, Jennifer S.,Lee, Wai-Hang,Paley, Daniel W.,Vetticatt, Mathew J.,Lambert, Tristan H.
p. 3523 - 3527
(2018/03/21)
Conformational effects on lipase-mediated acylations of 2-substituted cyclohexanols
Lipase-mediated acetylations of trans- and cis-2-substituted cyclohexanols gave the corresponding (1R)-cyclohexyl acetates and (1S)-cyclohexanols in high yields and ee, but c-4-tert-butyl-c-2-ethenyl-r-1-cyclohexanol was unreactive owing to the steric interaction between the axial OH group and the axial H atoms at the 3- and 5-positions. In the cis-isomer the OH group occupies an equatorial position to bind to the lipase, and less bulky axial alkenyl and alkynyl groups might not so much prevent acetylations than an alkyl group.