PMID- 18557644 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20080926 LR - 20080711 IS - 1520-6904 (Electronic) IS - 0022-3263 (Linking) VI - 73 IP - 14 DP - 2008 Jul 18 TI - Heterocyclic lithium amides as chiral ligands for an enantioselective hydroxyalkylation with n-BuLi. PG - 5397-409 LID - 10.1021/jo8005396 [doi] AB - Chiral heterocyclic structures based on 3-aminopyrrolidines (3APs), 3-aminotetrahydrothiophens (3ATTs), and 3-aminotetrahydrofurans (3ATFs) have been synthesized. The corresponding lithium amides have been evaluated as chiral ligands in the condensation of n-BuLi on o-tolualdehyde. The returned levels of induction were in the 46-80% ee range. The cheap and easily prepared 3ATFLi's turned out to be also the best ligands, giving access to the expected R or S alcohols in a same 80% level of induction at -78 degrees C in THF. In all cases, the sense of induction depends on the absolute configuration of C(8) on the 3-amino appendage. A general concept is proposed to rationalize the process of induction in the presence of organolithium species. FAU - Duguet, Nicolas AU - Duguet N AD - Laboratoire des Fonctions Azotees & Oxygenees Complexes de l'IRCOF, UMR CNRS 6014, Universite de Rouen and INSA de Rouen, 76821 Mont St Aignan Cedex, France. FAU - Petit, Sylvain M AU - Petit SM FAU - Marchand, Philippe AU - Marchand P FAU - Harrison-Marchand, Anne AU - Harrison-Marchand A FAU - Maddaluno, Jacques AU - Maddaluno J LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20080617 PL - United States TA - J Org Chem JT - The Journal of organic chemistry JID - 2985193R EDAT- 2008/06/19 09:00 MHDA- 2008/06/19 09:01 CRDT- 2008/06/19 09:00 PHST- 2008/06/19 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/06/19 09:01 [medline] PHST- 2008/06/19 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/jo8005396 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Org Chem. 2008 Jul 18;73(14):5397-409. doi: 10.1021/jo8005396. Epub 2008 Jun 17.