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Development of an effective chiral auxiliary for hydroxyalkyl radicals
Garner, Philip,Anderson, James T.,Cox, Philip B.,Klippenstein, Stephen J.,Leslie, Ray,Scardovi, Noemi
, p. 6195 - 6209 (2007/10/03)
The development of an effective chiral auxiliary for hydroxyalkyl radicals is delineated. Both the 2-tetrahydropyranyl (THP) and tri-O-benzyl-2-deoxy-α-D-glucopyranosyl (GLU) auxiliaries resulted in diastereoselective radical additions to methyl acrylate at -78°C (ds = 6/1 and 11/1, respectively). The developing stereochemistry at the radical center was completely under auxiliary control. Correlation experiments showed that the D-GLU auxiliary led to attack on the radical Si-face. The selectivity of these radical additions dropped-off considerably when the more reactive 2-nitropropene trap was employed. Computational studies suggested that the observed facial selectivity was due primarily to entropic factors in the transition state but that a smaller temperature-dependent enthalpic contribution was also involved. It was hypothesized that incorporation of a quaternary center at C-6 (THP numbering) would restore the facial selectivity with more reactive radical traps by restricting the orientations available to the incoming alkene. In the event, the trans-6-tert-butyltetrahydropyranyl (tBu-THP) auxiliary resulted in very good diastereoselection with 2-nitropropene (ds = 35/1 at -78°C, 15/1 at 0°C, and 8/1 at RT) as did the tri-O-benzyl-6,6-dimethyl-2-α-D-deoxyglucopyranosyl (diMe-GLU) auxiliary during additions to ethyl α-trifluoroacetoxyacrylate (ds = 10/1 at 0°C). A protocol for recovery of the sugar-derived chiral auxiliaries was also established. This work sets the stage for the development of a novel approach to 1, 3, 5...(2n + 1) polyols based on iterative radical homologation as well as the application of these pyranosidic auxiliaries to other synthetically important reactions.
