Aliltricloroestananas quirais e aquirais reagem com α-alcóxi aldeídos quirais para fornecer alcoóis homoalílicos com moderados a bons níveis de diastereosseletividade 1,4-syn.Achiral and chiral allyltrichlorostannanes reacted with chiral α-alkoxy aldehydes to give the corresponding homoallylic alcohols with moderate to good levels of 1,4-syn-diastereoselection.
Keywords: allyltrichlorostannanes, allylsilanes, homoallylic alcohols
IntroductionAllylsilanes and allylstannanes are among the most important groups of organometallic-type reagents available for the control of acyclic stereochemistry and their reaction with aldehydes in the presence of Lewis acids is an important procedure for the preparation of homoallylic alcohols.
1,2The addition of allylstannanes bearing a stereogenic center to chiral aldehydes is particularly interesting in organic synthesis. We recently communicated that in situ prepared chiral allyltrichlorostannanes react with chiral aldehydes to give 1,4-syn homoallylic alcohols with high levels of diastereoselectivity. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] We wish to describe here a stereocontrolled reaction between achiral and chiral allyltrichlorostannanes with chiral lactate-derived aldehydes to give fragments which can be found in a large variety of naturally-occurring products with promising biological activities. 12 This study details our efforts to understand the double stereodifferentiating stereocontrol elements involved in chiral allyltrichlorostannane additions to chiral aldehydes.
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Results and DiscussionAchiral and chiral allylsilanes 1-4 were prepared from the corresponding easily available methyl esters, as described in previous papers from this laboratory (Scheme 1). [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]14 According to previously established experimental procedures, the allylsilanes were mixed with SnCl 4 (1.0 equiv. in CH 2 Cl 2 ) before the addition of a solution of the aldehyde in order to promote the SiMe 3 /SnCl 3 exchange leading to the corresponding allyltrichlorostannanes 5-8 (Scheme 1).
5To the best of our knowledge, the first spectroscopic information available on exchange reactions involving allylsilanes and SnCl 4 was reported by Denmark and co-workers in 1988.13 In 1999, we described the first direct evidence for interaction between SnCl 4 and chiral allylic silane 3 bearing an ether functionality that generated a new species by means of NMR spectroscopy.5 In a continuation of these initial studies we have done a spectroscopic study ( For allyltrimethylsilane 1 the SiMe 3 /SnCl 3 exchange producing allyltrichlorostannane 5 and Me 3 SiCl is complete after 2 h at room temperature (Scheme 1). 5 For allylsilane 2 the SiMe 3 /SnCl 3 exchange to give 6 and Me 3 SiCl is faster, as expected for a 1,1-disubstituted electron-rich olefin, being complete after 10 minutes at room temperature. o C showed formation of Me 3 SiCl and complete consumption of both allylsilanes within less than 1 minute to give allyltrichlorostannanes (R)-7 and (S)-8, respectively. It appears that the oxygen function...