Oxazaborolidine-Catalyzed Enantioselective Reduction of Cyclic meso-Imides. -It is found that several meso-imides can be reduced with high enantioselectivity by means of the oxazaborolidine shown in the scheme and subsequent ethanolysis or acetylation. By conversion to a benzenesulfonyllactam, it is
Oxazaborolidine catalyzed enantioselective reductions of cyclic meso-imides
โ Scribed by Romeo Romagnoli; Eric C. Roos; Henk Hiemstra; Marinus J. Moolenaar; W. Nico Speckamp; Bernard Kaptein; Hans E. Schoemaker
- Book ID
- 104216326
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 344 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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โฆ Synopsis
Cyclic meso-imides such as the cyclic cis-3&disubstituted succinimides 1 farm an interesting and useful class of starting mater% in the field of asymmetric synthesis. A single, enantioselective transfoxmation, naw9y a reduction of one of the carbonyls, leads to a product with three contiguous stereocenters. F-the 5hydroxy-2-pyrmlidinones
(2), beiig the products of such reductions, have been shown to be versatile building blocks for fhe synthesis of various natural product~.~ In recent years several research groups, including ours, have been interested in obtaining these hydroxylactams in optically pure form. Different methods have been studied for the asymmetric reduction of meso-imides in order to obtain the desired compounds, including yeast reductions and reductions of nreso-imides bearing a chiral N-substituent.3
Very recently, an enantioselective reduction method by using optically active BINAL-H complexes has been qortezd4
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Prochiral ketones which contain nitrogen atoms have been reduced enantioselectively with chiral oxazaborolidines in the presence of excess borane. However, the pyridine system has been shown to be a poor substrate for this asymmetric reduction. For example, catalytic reduction of 2acetylpyridine wit