The best results with regard to diastereo- and enantiose-
lectivity were obtained with catalytic amounts of 1g
(5 mol%) providing 4-aminobenzopyran (4a) with an enan-
tiomeric ratio of 86:14 in favor of the cis-isomer (Table 1,
entry 7). Applying chiral N-triflylphosphoramide (1h) de-
rived from (S)-BINOL as the catalyst resulted in the prod-
uct with the opposite configuration.
Subsequently, we examined different reaction parameters
by varying reactant concentrations, solvents, temperatures
and the influence of the aldimine protecting group in order
to improve the enantioselectivity.[10] For instance, several N-
aryl-aldimine derivatives were prepared and tested in the
enantioselective domino Mannich–ketalization reaction. The
results are summarized in Table 2. In general excellent enan-
tiomeric ratios were obtained irrespective of the aryl group
used (Table 2, entry 2–7). The highest enantiomeric ratios
(e.r. 96:4) were obtained with phenyl- and p-methoxyphe-
Scheme 2. Brønsted acid catalyzed reaction of aldimines with dihydrofur-
anes leads depending on the hydroxyl substitution to either formation of
a) tetrahydroquinolines or b) furanobenzopyranes.
ACHTUNGTRENNUNGnyl-protected aldimine derivatives.
With the optimized conditions in hand, we decided to ex-
plore the scope of this new asymmetric domino Mannich–
ketalization reaction yielding tricyclic furanobenzopyrans
with control of three stereocenters. In general differently
substituted o-hydroxybenzaldimines (Table 2) with various
N-aryl residues (Tables 2 and 3) can be effectively reacted
with 2,3-dihydro-2H-furan to give the desired products in
good yields and with excellent enantioselectivities.
Table 2. Evaluation of different N-aryl aldimines.
The molecular structure of the products was determined
by X-ray analysis of 6h (Figure 1). The absolute configura-
tion of the major diastereomer was assigned to be 3R,4R,9S.
Encouraged by these results we proceeded to examine ad-
ditionally the use of 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran (8) in this new
catalytic asymmetric Mannich–ketalization reaction.[14] This
Entry[a]
R
t [h]
Yield [%][b]
d.r.[c]
e.r.[d]
1
2-OMe
H
4-OMe
4-Cl
4-F
4-Br
4-Me
24
36
72
60
52
50
55
80 (4a)
81 (4b)
51 (4c)
84 (4d)
76 (4e)
86 (4 f)
74 (4g)
1.2:1
2.7:1
2.5:1
2.3:1
2.1:1
2.3:1
2.6:1
88:12
96:4
96:4
95:5
95:5
94:6
95:5
2[e]
3[f]
4
5
6
7
Table 3. Scope of the Brønsted acid catalyzed enantioselective domino
Mannich–ketalization reaction.
[a] Reaction conditions: 2, 3 (5.0 equiv), 1h (5 mol%), 0.25m solution in
DCE at À108C. [b] Yield of isolated product after chromatography.
1
[c] Determined by H NMR spectroscopy. [d] Determined by HPLC anal-
ysis. [e] The reaction was carried out at À208C. [f] 10 equiv of 3.
The latter observation is particularly interesting if com-
Entry[a]
R
R1
Yield [%][b]
d.r.[c]
e.r.[d]
pared to the recently reported chiral phosphoric acid[11,12]
-
1
2
3
4
5-Cl
5-Br
Ph
Ph
Ph
Ph
Ph
Ph
Ph
p-Cl-C6H4
PMP
PMP
PMP
PMP
83 (6a)
87 (6b)
81 (6c)
89 (6d)
88 (6e)
46 (6 f)
87 (6g)
78 (6h)
53 (6i)
51 (6j)
59 (6k)
55 (6l)
1.9:1
2.2:1
1.7:1
1.9:1
96:4
96:4
96:4
95:5
98:2
92:8
87:13
93:7
95:5
94:6
94:6
91:9
catalyzed reverse electron-demanding aza-Diels–Alder reac-
tion by Akiyama and co-workers.[13] The activation of the al-
dimine in this transformation is believed to proceed through
a bifunctional activation via a nine-membered hydrogen-
bonded transition state TS 1 which results in the formation
of the 8-hydroxytetrahydroquinolines (Scheme 2a). In con-
trast, our newly developed N-triflylphosphoramide catalyzed
Mannich–ketalization reaction selectively yields 4-amino-
furanobenzopyrans and is most likely to proceed through
the formation of an intermediary chiral iminium ion pair
transition state (Scheme 2b). Compared to the tetrahydro-
quinoline synthesis the difference in regioselectivity must be
due to the nucleophilicity of the benzaldimine hydroxyl
group which leads to a faster ketalization reaction.
5-OMe
5-Me
4,6-(Cl)2
4-OMe
3-OEt
5-Cl
5-OMe
5-Cl
5-Br
5[e]
6[e]
7[e]
8[e]
9[e,f]
10[f,g]
11[f,g]
12[f,g]
-
[h]
1.8:1
2.1:1
2.2:1
1.2:1
1.15:1
1.5:1
1.3:1
5-Me
[a] Reaction conditions: 5, 3 (5.0 equiv), 1h (5 mol%), 0.25m solution in
DCE at À208C for 30–72 h. [b] Yield of isolated product after chroma-
tography. [c] Determined by 1H NMR-spectroscopy. [d] Determined by
HPLC analysis. [e] At À108C. [f] 10 equiv of 3. [g] At 08C. [h] Only syn
isomer detected.
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