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The intriguing reactivity of functionalized β-amino alcohols with glyoxal: Application to a new expedient enantioselective synthesis of trans-6-alkylpipecolic acids
Agami, Claude,Comesse, Sebastien,Kadouri-Puchot, Catherine
, p. 2424 - 2428 (2007/10/03)
New β-amino alcohols possessing a vinylsilane moiety were reacted with glyoxal to produce lactones that were transformed in three steps in enantiopure pipecolic acid derivatives. The key step was a totally diastereoselective ene-iminium cyclization, whose mechanism can be viewed as a direct cyclization of the vinylsilane moiety onto the iminium ion. The reactivity of two β-amino alcohols having an allylsilane terminator was also examined. Their difference of reactivity toward glyoxal can be ascribed to the intervention of a carbocation, which presents a behavior that differs according to the position of the trimethylsilyl group.
