Síntese de um novo organocatalisador derivado da d-galactose e aplicação em reação do tipo Michael

Abstract

Carbohydrates have been used as organocatalysts in organic synthesis due to its inherent chirality. In this work, D-galactose was choose as a chiral pool in the catalyst design and it was prepared in five steps: selective ketalyzation of hydroxyl groups, following by an iodination and nucleophilic substitution in the presence of azide. To complete, reduction of the azide to amine and a coupling reaction with phthalic anhydride leading to the catalyst. Overall yield was 60 % for five steps. Then, the catalyst was adopted in the Michael addition reaction between dibenzylidene acetone and azalactone derivative of alanine. The product was obtained in 57% yield and with fully control of both regio- and diastereoselectivity. Next, various funcionalizated dbas were evaluated under the optimized reaction condition and the corresponding final products were fully characterized through conventional elemental analysis. The relative stereochemistry was assigned as being 1,2-anti by using chiral HPLC method. To this end, an authentic sample already described in the literature was prepared in order the retention time. In general, for the first time, a method more general to perform a diastereoselective dessymetrization of dbas in presence of azlactones by using a Brønsted acid as catalyst was described.