Orthoacylimines: a new class of chiral auxiliaries for nucleophilic addition of organolithium reagents to imines |
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Authors: | Boezio Alessandro A Solberghe Geoffrey Lauzon Caroline Charette André B |
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Institution: | Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Station Downtown, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7. |
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Abstract: | A new class of orthoacylimine-derived chiral auxiliaries has been synthesized and tested in the nucleophilic addition of organolithium reagents to imines. The precursors can be prepared by an aza-Wittig reaction between the corresponding orthoacyl azide and a variety of aldehydes in the presence of trialkylphosphines. The nucleophilic addition of organolithium reagents led to the addition products in good yields and with good to excellent diastereoselectivities (from 85:15 to 99:1). The chiral, nonracemic secondary amines could be readily obtained under mild hydrolytic condition. Furthermore, the chiral auxiliary can be recovered in quantitative yield and reconverted to the starting orthoacyl azide precursor. This method was applied to the synthesis of (S)-t-leucine. |
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