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Alkylation of lithiated dimethyl tartrate acetonide with unactivated alkyl halides and application to an asymmetric synthesis of the 2,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane core of squalestatins/zaragozic acids

(R,R)-Dimethyl tartrate acetonide 7 in THF/HMPA undergoes deprotonation with LDA and reaction at -78 °C during 12-72 h with a range of alkyl halides, including non-activated substrates, to give single diastereomers (at the acetonide) of monoalkylated tartrates 17, 24, 33a-f, 38a,b, 41 of R,R-configuration, i.e., a stereoretentive process (13-78% yields). Separable trans-dialkylated tartrates 34a.f can be co-produced in small amounts (9-14%) under these conditions, and likely arise from the achiral dienolate 36 of tartrate 7. Enolate oxidation and acetonide removal from γ-silyloxyalkyl iodide-derived alkylated tartrates 17 and 24 give ketones 21 and 26 and then Bamford-Stevens-derived diazoesters 23 and 27, respectively. Only triethylsilyl-protected diazoester 27 proved viable to deliver a diazoketone 28. The latter underwent stereoselective carbonyl ylide formation-cycloaddition with methyl glyoxylate and acid-catalysed rearrangement of the resulting cycloadduct 29, to give the 3,4,5-tricarboxylate-2,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane core 31 of squalestatins/zaragozic acids. Furthermore, monoalkylated tartrates 33a,d,f, and 38a on reaction with NaOMe in MeOH at reflux favour (≈75:25) the cis-diester epimers epi-33a,d,f and epi-38a (54-67% isolated yields), possessing the R,S-configuration found in several monoalkylated tartaric acid motif-containing natural products.

Stereoselective Alkylierung an C(α) von Serin, Gycerinsaeure, Thereonin und Weinsaeure ueber heterocyclische Enolate mit exocyclischer Doppelbindung

The chiral, non-racemic title acids are converted to methyl dioxalene- (cf. 13), oxazoline- (4) and oxazolidine-carboxylates (cf. 9).Deprotonation by Li(i-Pr)2N at dry-ice temperature gives solutions of the litium enolates A-D with exocyclic enolate double bonds.These are stable enough with respect to β-elimination (Scheme 1) to be alkylated with or without cosolvents such as HMPA or DMPU.The products are formed in good to excellent yields and, with the exception of the tartrate derived acetonide (see Schemem 2), with diastereoselectivities above 90percent.While the tartrate- and threonine-derived enolates (A and B, resp.) are chiral due to the second stereogenic center of the precursors, the serine- and glyceric-acid-derived enolates are non-racemic due to a tert butyl-substituted (pivalaldehyde-derived) acetal center (C and D, resp.).The products of alkylation can be hydrolyzed to give α-branched tartaric acid (Scheme 2), allothreonine (Scheme 3), serine (Scheme 4), and glycerine-acid derivatives (Scheme 5) with quaternary stereogenic centers.The configurations of the products are determined by NOE-NMR measurements and by chemical correlation.These show taht the dioxolane-derived enolates A and D are alkylated preferentially from that face of the ring which is alredy substituted ('syn'-attack).The 'syn'-attack is postulated to arise from strong folding of the heterocyclic ring due to elelctronic repulsion between the enolate ?-system and non-bonding elelctron pairs on the heteroatoms (see Scheme 6).