ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The preparation of novel electrophilic building blocks for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure compounds (EPC) is described. Thus, the 2-(tert-butyl)dioxolanones, -oxazolidinones, -imidazolidinones, and -dioxanones obtained by acetalization of pivalaldehyde with 2-hydroxy-, 3-hydroxy-, or 2-amino-carboxylic acids are treated with N-bromosuccinimide under typical radical-chain reaction conditions (azoisobuytyronitril/CCl4/reflux). Products of bromination in the α-position of the carbonyl group of the five-membered-ring acetals are isolated or identified (2, 5, and 8; Scheme 1). The dioxanones are converted to 2H, 4H-dioxinones under these conditions (12, 14, 15, 21, and 22; Schemes 2 and 3). The products can be converted to chiral derivatives of pyruvic acid (methylidene derivatives 3 and 6) or of 3-oxo-butanoic and -pentanoic acid (16 and 23). The mechanism of the brominations is interpreted. The conversion of serine to enactiomcrically pure dioxanones 26-28 (Scheme 4) is also discussed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19870700423
