A temporary stereocentre approach for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral cyclopropane-carboxaldehydes

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Cheeseman, M., Davies, I. R., Axe, P., Johnson, A. L. and Bull, S. D., 2009. A temporary stereocentre approach for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral cyclopropane-carboxaldehydes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 7 (17), pp. 3537-3548.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b908600e

Abstract

A novel way of combining chiral auxiliaries and substrate directable reactions is described that employs a three-step sequence of aldol/cyclopropanation/retro-aldol reactions for the asymmetric synthesis of enantiopure cyclopropane-carboxaldehydes. In the first step, reaction of the boron enolate of (S)-N-propionyl-5,5-dimethyl-oxazolidin-2-one with a series of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes affords their corresponding syn-aldol products in high de. In the second step, directed cyclopropanation of the alkene functionalities of these syn-aldols occurs under the stereodirecting effect of their temporary β-hydroxyl stereocentres to give a series of cyclopropyl-aldols in high de. Finally, retro-aldol cleavage of the lithium alkoxide of these cyclopropyl-aldols results in destruction of their temporary β-hydroxy stereocentres to afford the parent chiral auxiliary and chiral cyclopropane-carboxaldehydes in >95% ee. The potential of this methodology has been demonstrated for the asymmetric synthesis of the cyclopropane containing natural product cascarillic acid in good yield.

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