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Lewis acid mediated asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions of chiral 2-phosphonoacrylates
Zhu, Jia-Liang,Chen, Po-Erh,Huang, Hue-Wen
, p. 23 - 36 (2013/02/23)
2-Phosphonoacrylates containing four chiral alcohol auxiliaries were efficiently prepared and evaluated in Lewis acid mediated Diels-Alder reactions. Under the activation of SnCl4, all reactions performed in CH 2Cl2 at -65 °C exclusively afforded the endo (endo-to-carboxylate) cycloadducts with dr's ranging from 50:50 to >99:1. The best facial selectivity was obtained from the substrate bearing a (-)-phenylmenthyl group, to give adducts as (dr >99:1) or almost as (dr = 99:1) single diastereomers. Detailed strategies for the structural elucidation of the cycloadducts as well as a rationalization of the observed stereoselectivity are described.
