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DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-865337
Stereochemical Study on α-Alkylation of β-Branched α-Amino Acid Derivatives via Memory of Chirality
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25. April 2005 (online)
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Abstract
α-Alkylation of N-Boc-N-MOM amino acid derivatives with an additional chiral center at the β-carbon proceeded with retention of configuration, irrespective of the chirality at the β-carbon. The C-N axial chirality of the enolate intermediates played a decisive role in the stereochemical course of the alkylation, while the central chirality of the β-carbon had little effect. Amino acid derivatives with contiguous quaternary and tertiary stereocenters are readily obtained in a stereochemically expectable manner.
Key words
axial chirality - amino acid - memory of chirality - enolate - quaternary stereocenter
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8Enolate F generated from 7 or 10 is not axially chiral along the C(2)-N axis because of the same two substituents on the nitrogen atom, even if the bond rotation is restricted at -78 °C.
9The stereochemistry of 8 and 9 was determined after their conversion into the corresponding p-nitrobenzamide derivatives, see ref. 6.
10Similar stereochemical results were observed in the α-allylation of 3 and 6, see reference 6.
11Enolate G generated from 11 or 14 is not axially chiral along the C(2)-N axis because of the same two substituents on the nitrogen atom, even if the bond rotation is restricted at -78 °C.
13While N-methylation took place during the transformation from 16 into 27, it did not during that from 17 into 28, probably due to the steric hindrance caused by diaxial 3,4-dimethyl groups in 28.