35947-70-7Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Phosphine-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis of β-lactones from disubstituted ketenes and aldehydes
Chen, Shi,Mondal, Mukulesh,Ibrahim, Ahmad A.,Wheeler, Kraig A.,Kerrigan, Nessan J.
, p. 4920 - 4929 (2014/06/23)
In this article we describe a general catalytic procedure for the formation of β-lactones bearing two stereogenic centers, from disubstituted ketenes and achiral aldehydes. BINAPHANE was found to display excellent enantioselectivity (≤90% ee for eight examples) and good diastereoselectivity (≤90:10 for 13 examples) in catalyzing the formation of β-lactones bearing two stereogenic centers from achiral aldehydes (both aromatic and aliphatic) and alkylarylketenes or dialkylketenes. A preference for formation of the trans diastereomer was observed in these reactions. For those reactions where BINAPHANE failed as a catalyst, tri-n-butylphosphine was found to be an effective achiral nucleophilic catalyst, effecting good yield and diastereoselectivity in racemic β-lactone formation. Evidence for the involvement of phosphonium enolate intermediates in the reaction mechanism was obtained through reaction monitoring by 31P NMR spectroscopy and by comparison with previously characterized intermediates observed in the phosphine-catalyzed ketene homodimerization reaction.
MNBA-mediated β-lactone formation: Mechanistic studies and application for the asymmetric total synthesis of tetrahydrolipstatin
Shiina, Isamu,Umezaki, Yuma,Kuroda, Nobutaka,Iizumi, Takashi,Nagai, Shunsuke,Katoh, Takashi
, p. 4885 - 4901 (2012/07/30)
Various β-lactones were prepared from β-hydroxycarboxylic acids by intramolecular dehydration condensation using MNBA, an effective coupling reagent, along with a nucleophilic catalyst. The transition state that provides the desired 4-membered ring model system is disclosed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and the structural features of the transition form are discussed. This method was successfully applied to the asymmetric total synthesis of tetrahydrolipstatin (THL), an antiobestic drug used in clinical treatment to inhibit the activity of pancreatic lipase.
On the antibiotic activity of oxazolomycin
Bagwell, Claire L.,Moloney, Mark G.,Thompson, Amber L.
scheme or table, p. 4081 - 4086 (2009/04/07)
Structural analysis of oxazolomycin and simpler fragments containing a common 3-hydroxy-2,2-dimethylpropanamide moiety has indicated that a U-shaped conformation is preferred, in some cases stabilised by hydrogen bonding between the N-H and O-H residues, as shown by a combination of molecular modelling, NMR spectroscopic and single crystal X-ray analysis. A direct synthesis of this unit has been established via the opening of β-lactones by a range of amines, and their antibacterial activity been shown to vary with the hydrophobic character of the substituents.
