a Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan b Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, 150 Yagotoyama, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya 460-8503, Japan
Abstract:
Titanium tetrachloride-mediated aza Diels-Alder cycloaddition using a chiral diene and an aza dienophile proceeds in highly diastereoselective manner to form a dehydropiperazic acid derivative in high yield, and diastereoselectivity of the reaction depends on the quantity of titanium tetrachloride.