Stereoselective addition of Grignard reagents to sulfinimines derived from tartrate diol (threitol): Generation of chiral building blocks for the collective total synthesis of lentiginosine, conhydrine and methyldihydropalustramate

Crystallization-Induced Diastereomer Transformation of α-Bromo α'-Sulfinyl Ketones. Diastereodivergent Synthesis of (+)-α-Conhydrine and (-)-β-Conhydrine

Crystallization-Induced Diastereomer Transformation (CIDT) of α-bromo-α'-(R)-sulfinylketones is reported. This process provides not readily accessible enantiopure stereolabile α-bromoketones, which after diastereoselective carbonyl group reduction lead to the corresponding highly value-added anti and syn-bromohydrins with excellent diastereoselectivities. As an application, a diastereodivergent synthesis of enantiopure hemlock alkaloid (+)-α-conhydrine and its diastereomer (-)-β-conhydrine is also described.

Applications of tert-butanesulfinamide in the synthesis of N-heterocycles via sulfinimines

Chiral sulfinamides are among the best known chiral auxiliaries in the stereoselective synthesis of amines and their derivatives. The most extensively used enantiopure tert-butanesulfinamide emerged as the gold standard among many others over the last two decades. The present review attempts to provide an overview of tert-butanesulfinamide mediated asymmetric N-heterocycle synthesis via sulfinimines and covers literature from 2010-2020. This methodology offers general access to structurally diverse piperidines, pyrrolidines, azetidines, and their fused derivatives that represent the structural motif of many natural products and therapeutically applicable compounds.