Crystalline 5-O-acetyl-2,3-isopropylidenedioxy-D-ribonolactone oxime (8) was synthesised from D-ribose in 40% overall yield. The chloronitroso dienophile 3b was obtained from 8 by oxidation with t-BuOCl and underwent asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction with cyclic and acyclic dienes 10-13 to give crystalline adducts 14a-17a in good yield and excellent enantiomeric excess (93-99%).A. Defoin et al. PAPER Synthesis 2000, No. 12, 1719-1726 ISSN 0039-7881 © Thieme Stuttgart · New York rate was fast with cyclohexadiene (10) and slow (ca 1-2 d) with pentadienoic acid (11) and sorbic acid (12), leading to the corresponding chiral adducts 14a-16a as crystalline hydrochlorides in 75-86% yield (by direct precipitation with anhydrous diethyl ether). Hexa-2,4-diene (13) [ca 50:50 mixture of (E,E)-and (E,Z)-isomers 30 ] reacted rapidly with 3b and gave a mixture of the cis-adduct 17a and its trans-isomer (20%). The cis adduct 17a was isolated in 60% yield as a crystalline hydrochloride after aqueous extraction, as described by Kresze and Vasella. 20 Ribonolactone (9), which resulted from 3b, could be isolated from the organic phase.
Scheme 2Benzyl (3S,6R)-3,6-Dimethyl-3,6-dihydro-2H-1,2-oxazine-2carboxylate (17b)To an aqueous solution of 17a (8 mL) [from aqueous extraction of the reaction mixture of 3b (0.82 mmol) and 13 (0.4 mL, 3.5 mmol, 2 equiv of (E,E)-diene)] was added dioxane (1 mL), NaHCO 3 (0.28 g, 3.4 mmol, 4 equiv) and ClCO 2 Bn (0.132 mL, 0.94 mmol, 1.2 equiv). The reaction mixture was stirred for 2 h at r.t., then extracted with Et 2 O (2 × 10 mL), the organic phase dried (MgSO 4 ) and evaporated. Purification by FC (CH 2 Cl 2 ) gave 17b (0.13 g, 63%) (as a mixture with 20% of trans-isomer); colorless resin.