Academic literature on the topic 'N-Sulfonyl-1'

(+)-Gelsemine 3 has no particular biological activity, but its intricate architecture continues to inspire the ingenuity of organic synthesis chemists. Yong Qin of Sichuan University devised (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 4909) an enantiospecific synthesis of 3, a key step of which was the cyclization of 1 to 2. The starting material for the synthesis was the inexpensive diethyl tartrate 4, which was converted over six steps into the N-sulfonyl aziridine 5. The addition of 6 was highly regioselective, leading, after N-methylation, to the alkyne 7. After alcohol protection, the sulfonyl group was smoothly removed by sonication with Mg powder in methanol. Addition to acryonitrile then gave 8. Semihydrogenation of 8 set the stage for construction of the lactone 1. The anion of 1, generated by exposure to LDA, cyclized to 2 with significant diastereoselectivity. The lactone of 2 was selectively reduced with Dibal, to give an aldehyde that was protected as the acetal. The exposed primary alcohol was then oxidized to the aldehyde 9. Condensation of 9 with the enolate of 10 followed by dehydration delivered the alkene 11, with the stage set for a second intramolecular nitrile anion addition. In the event, the cyclization of 11 delivered 12, the wrong diastereomer. This was corrected by selenation and oxidation to give an alkene, which was hydrogenated to 13. Exposure to acid deprotected both the MOM group of 13 and the acetal, then promoted cyclization to 14. Reduction of the nitrile to the aldehyde followed by methylenation completed the synthesis of (+)-gelsemine 3. It should be noted that the hydrogenation to form 13 had to be carried out carefully to avoid premature removal of the N-methoxy group. That group was critical for the successful conversion of 13 to 14.

Several remarkable one-carbon homologations have recently appeared. André B. Charette of the Université de Montréal reported (J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 8097) the alkylation of diiodomethane with alkyl iodides such as 1, to give the diiodoalkane 2. Carlo Punta and the late Ombretta Porta of the Politecnico di Milano effected (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 5063) reductive condensation of an amine 3 with an aldehyde 4 in the presence of methanol, to give the amino alcohol 5. Timothy S. Snowden of the University of Alabama showed (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 3853) that NaBH4 reduced the carbinol 7, easily prepared from the aldehyde 6, to the acid 8. Ram N. Ram of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi found (J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 5633) that CuCl reduced 7 to the chloro ketone 9. Kálmán J. Szabó of Stockholm University extended (Chem. Commun. 2008, 3420) his elegant work on in situ borinate formation, coupling, in one pot, the allylic alcohol 10 with the acetal 11 (hydrolysed in situ) to deliver the alcohol 12 as a single diastereomer. Samir Z. Zard of the Ecole Polytechnique developed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8898) the 6-fluoropyridyloxy ether of 13 as an effective radical leaving group, enabling efficient coupling with 14, activated by dilauroyl peroxide, to give 15. Shu Kobayashi of the University of Tokyo established (Chem. Commun. 2008, 6354) that the anion of the sulfonyl imidate 17 participated in direct Pd-mediated allylic coupling with the carbonate 16. The product sulfonyl imidate 18 is itself of medicinal interest. It is also easily converted to other functional groups, including the aldehyde 19. Jianliang Xiao of the University of Liverpool found (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 10510) that Pd-mediated coupling of an aldehyde 21 in the presence of pyrrolidine led to the ketone 22. The reaction is probably proceeding via Heck coupling of the aryl halide with the in situ generated enamine. Alois Fürstner of the Max Planck Institut, Mülheim observed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8773) that in the presence of the simple catalyst Fe(acac)3 a Grignard reagent 24 coupled smoothly with an aryl halide 23 to give 25.

Dithianes such as 1 are readily prepared, from the corresponding ketone or by alkyl­ation. Masayuki Kirihara of the Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology devel­oped (Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 5477) an oxidative method for the deprotection of 1 to 2. Konrad Tiefenbacher of the Technische Universität München devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 16213) a hexameric resorcinarene capsule that selectively catalyzed the hydrolysis of the smaller acetal 3 to 4 in the presence of a longer chain acetal. David J. Gorin of Smith College reported (J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 11606) the methylation of an acid 5 to 6 using dimethyl carbonate as the donor. Two peroxide-based methods (J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 9898; Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 3326) for carboxylic acid methylation (not illustrated) were also recently described. Hisashi Yamamoto of the University of Chicago showed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 7198) that the “supersilyl” ester 8, prepared from 7, was stable enough to be deprotonated and alkyl­ated, but was easily removed. Michal Szostak and David J. Procter of the University of Manchester uncovered (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 7237) the remarkable cleavage of a C–N bond in an amide 9, leading to the secondary amide 10. This could offer an alternative strategy for difficult-to-hydrolyze amides. Richard B. Silverman of Northwestern University described (J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 10931) improved protocols for the formation and removal of the N-protecting 2,5-dimethylpyrrole 11 to give 12. Huanfeng Jiang of the South China University of Technology showed (Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 6102) that an arenesulfonamide 14 can be prepared by oxidation of the corresponding sodium arenesulfinate 13. Douglas A. Klumpp of Northern Illinois University prepared (Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 5945) sul­fonamides (not illustrated) by combining a sulfonyl fluoride with a silyl amine. K. Rajender Reddy of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology developed (Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 6686) a new route to a urea 17, by oxidative coupling of an amine 15 with a formamide 16.

Susumu Saito of Nagoya University developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3006) Fe-catalyzed conditions, compatible with alkenes, for converting an alcohol 1 to the amine 2. Corey R. J. Stephenson of Boston University took advantage (Nature Chem. 2011, 3, 140) of photoredox catalysis to convert an alcohol 3 to the iodide 4. Jing-Mei Huang of the South China University of Technology condensed (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 3511) the halide 5 with benzaldehyde and aqueous ammonia to give the imine 6. Young Hoon Jung of Sungkyunkwan University used (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 1901) chlorosulfonyl isocyanate to convert a benzylic (or allylic) ether 7 into the urethane 8. David Crich of Centre de Recherche de Gif coupled (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2256) the isocyanate 9 with the acid 10 to give the amide 11. Tobias Ritter of Harvard University effected (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 1760) α-hydroxylation of the acidic ketone 12 by exposure to O2 in the presence of a Pd catalyst. Gowravaram Sabitha of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, activated (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 382) Pd(OH)2 by exposure to H2 , then used the activated catalyst to isomerize the allylic alcohol 14 to the aldehyde 15 . Richard C. Hartley of the University of Glasgow combined (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 3020) commercial Nysted reagent and Cp2 TiCl2 to methyl-enate the ester 16. The enol ether 17 is a versatile intermediate, giving, inter alia, the methyl ketone by hydrolysis, or the α-hydroxy ketone on exposure to peracid. The activation of alkynes continues to be an area of vigorous investigation. Lukas Hintermann of the Technische Universitä t München devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 8138) a Ru catalyst for the hydration of 18 to the aldehyde 19. Issa Yavari of Tarbiat Modares University effected (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 668) oxidation of 20 to the N-sulfonyl amidine 22. Craig A. Merlic of UCLA coupled (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2778) 24 with the vinyl boronate derived from 23 to give the silyl enol ether 25. Li-Biao Han of AIST Tsukuba prepared (Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 2333) 28 by adding 27 to 26.

Mark Gandelman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology devised (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 1438) a protocol for the decarboxylative conversion of an acid 1 to the iodide 3. Doug E. Frantz of the University of Texas, San Antonio effected (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 6128) conversion of a β-keto ester 4 to the diene 5 by way of the vinyl triflate. Pei Nian Liu of the East China University of Science and Technology and Chak Po Lau of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 275) and Robert G. Bergman and Kenneth N. Raymond of the University of California, Berkeley (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 11964) described new Ru catalysts for the isomerization of an allylic alcohol 6 to the ketone 7. Xiaodong Shi of West Virginia University optimized (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 2584) a gold catalyst for the rearrangement of a propargylic ester 8 to the enone 9. Xue-Yuan Liu of Lanzhou University used (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 3157) a Cu catalyst to add the chloramine 11 to the alkyne 10 to give 12. Kasi Pitchumani of Madurai Kamaraj University converted (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5728) the alkyne 13 into the α-amino amide 15 by reaction with the nitrone 14. Katsuhiko Tomooka of Kyushu University effected (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 20712) hydrosilylation of the propargylic ether 16 to the alcohol 17. Matthew J. Cook of Queen’s University Belfast (Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 11104) and Anna M. Costa and Jaume Vilarrasa of the Universitat de Barcelona (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 4934) improved the conversion of an alkenyl silane 18 to the iodide 19. Vinay Girijavallabhan of Merck/Kenilworth developed (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 6442) a Co catalyst for the Markovnikov addition of sulfide to an alkene 20. Hojat Veisi of Payame Noor University oxidized (Synlett 2011, 2315) the thiol 22 directly to the sulfonyl chloride 23. Nicholas M. Leonard of Abbott Laboratories prepared (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 9169) the chromatography-stable O-Su ester 25 from the corresponding acid 24.