title: Efficient remote axial-to-central chirality transfer in enantioselective SmI2-mediated reductive coupling of aldehydes with crotonates of atropisomeric 1-naphthamides.
abstract: Control of enantioselectivity by remote amide conformation has been studied in SmI2-mediated reductive coupling of aldehydes with the crotonates possessing different 2-substituted 8-methoxy-1-naphthamides. The enantiomers of atropisomeric 8-methoxy-1-naphthamides were prepared through a chemical resolution process, and their absolute stereochemistry was determined by X-ray crystal structural analysis. It was found that the linkage between crotonate and the C2 position of 8-methoxy-1-naphthamides remarkably influenced the efficiency of remote chirality transfer originated from the amide conformation. Among the four crotonates examined, the one derived from 2-hydroxy-8-methoxy-1-naphthamide reacted with pentanal to afford the highest ee of > 99% for the cis-gamma-butyrolactone and in 90% combined yield with a cis/trans ratio of 90:10. We developed a new procedure for attaching the chiral crotonate via the C8 oxygen to a Rink amide resin under mild conditions and obtained the same level of highly remote axial-to-central chirality transfer in the solid-phase reaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yongqiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei-Min
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Dai