Diastereoselective functionalisation of benzo-annulated bicyclic sultams: Application for the synthesis of cis-2,4-diarylpyrrolidines

• Susan Kelleher,
• Pierre-Yves Quesne and
• Paul Evans

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 69, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.69

• explanation for this mixture of products, based on the high levels of diastereoselectivity observed in the similar examples discussed herein, is that the initially formed product begins to undergo epimerisation in order to place the larger (CO2Me) substituent on the least hindered face. Consequently, the

• complete epimerisation of this material was investigated using NaOMe (1 M) based on a literature report [26]. Pleasingly, the hoped for process did indeed lead to the formation of one diastereomer of carboxylic acid 26, which was formed from the methyl ester on hydrolysis following work-up (see Figure 4

• and crystallographic data). Although the yields described during this sequence are low at this stage, the successful epimerisation observed demonstrates that this approach represents a stereo-complementary method to those described in Scheme 1 and Scheme 8. With the lithiation chemistry described

Analogues of amphibian alkaloids: total synthesis of (5R,8S,8aS)-(−)-8-methyl- 5-pentyloctahydroindolizine (8-epi-indolizidine 209B) and [(1S,4R,9aS)-(−)-4-pentyloctahydro- 2H-quinolizin- 1-yl]methanol

• Joseph P. Michael,
• Claudia Accone,
• Charles B. de Koning and
• Christiaan W. van der Westhuyzen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 5, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-4-5

• set up the desired stereochemistry at C-8 and C-8a. Epimerisation of the ester in the reduced compound (−)-20 produced (−)-21, reduction of which gave the alcohol (−)-22. Reduction of the corresponding methanesulfonate with lithium triethylborohydride, as described by Holmes et al. [24], completed the

• ]. Finally, since the pendent substituents in the indolizidine series can be induced to adopt a trans-orientation by base-catalysed epimerisation of a carbonyl substituent adjacent to the bridgehead position (cf Scheme 1), it should in principle be possible to effect a similar epimerisation in the

Pd-catalysed [3 + 3] annelations in the stereoselective synthesis of indolizidines

• Olivier Y. Provoost,
• Andrew J. Hazelwood and
• Joseph P. A. Harrity

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 8, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-8

• corresponding Mosher's ester showed a single resonance in the 19F NMR spectrum (235 MHz, CDCl3: δ-72.0) suggesting that minimal epimerisation had taken place during the oxidation process. We next decided to investigate the formation of the azabicycle via the deprotection of the Ts-amine moiety followed by

Tether- directed synthesis of highly substituted oxasilacycles via an intramolecular allylation employing allylsilanes

• Peter J. Jervis and
• Liam R. Cox

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 6, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-6

• temperature, allowing further reduction to the corresponding primary alcohols. Fortunately, the two alcohol products could be oxidised to the desired aldehydes syn-4a and anti-4a, using Dess-Martin periodinane[22][23] without epimerisation of the α-stereogenic centre (Scheme 7). With all four cyclisation