Asymmetric route to lactams utilizing a [3+2] annulation of chiral alpha-siloxy allylsilanes

ORGN 664

Antonio Romero, antonior@uci.edu and Keith A. Woerpel. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2025
A route has been developed for the synthesis of chiral lactams utilizing a [3+2] annulation reaction involving chiral alpha-siloxy allylsilanes 1 and chlorosulfonyl isocyanate (CSI). Chiral alpha-siloxy allylsilanes are derived from asymmetric reduction of acylsilanes using a chiral lithium amide, affording allylsilanes in high enantiopurity. The subsequent annulation process exhibits a high degree of stereoselectivity affording only lactams 2, in most cases, as one diastereomer. The lactams synthesized using this methodology also possess latent functionality for further synthetic manipulation via N-acyl imminium ion intermediates.

 

New Reactions and Methodology
1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 Convention Center -- Ballroom 20 C-D, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 229th ACS National Meeting, in San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2005