Synthèse diastéréosélective et énantiosélective de dérivés cyclopropaniques 1,2,3-substitués à l’aide de carbénoïdes gem-dizinciques
1,2,3-Substituted cyclopropanes are useful compounds present in several chemical domains. This thesis considers both the diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of these compounds, particularly focusing on zincocyclopropanation methodologies. This method relies on a gem-diorganozinc carbenoid undergoing a Simmons-Smith type cyclopropanation. This method is advantageous due to its diastereoselectivity, forming the cyclopropylzinc adduct, where the zinc atom is cis relative to the directing group involved in the cyclopropanation. In this reaction, the existence of a competitive pathway involving a monoorganozinc reagent dramatically decreased the efficiency of the zincocyclopropanation. Reactivity studies, and screening of numerous conditions for the formation of the carbenoids highlighted the crucial parameters favouring the zincocyclopropanation reaction. This work demonstrated that the outcome of the reaction strongly depends on the nature of the carbenoid used, the temperature, and the presence of ZnI2 in the reaction mixture. Due to these findings, zincocyclopropanation was extended to allylic alcohols bearing one directing group only (i.e. not derived from 1,4-butenediol). As predicted, under these optimized conditions the zincocyclopropanation was highly cis-diastereoselective. To functionalize these cyclopropylzinc reagents many in situ functionalization reactions were developed. All these methods demonstrated total retention of the diastereoselectivity, and as such, the versatility of zincocyclopropanation for the synthesis of 1,2,3-susbtituted cyclopropanes is demonstrated. With a diastereoselective method in hand for the synthesis of 1,2,3-substituted cyclopropanes, we explored the development of an enantioselective version for this reaction. The use of a dioxaborolane-based ligand allowed the zincocyclopropanation of various allylic alcohols with high enantioselectivity. The presence of a nucleophilic C-Zn bond and an electrophilic boron center within the same molecule led to an in situ zinc-boron exchange and the formation of a cyclopropylborinate. This intramolecular zinc to boron exchange is responsible of the perfect diastereoselectivity of the reaction. These cyclopropylborinates were submitted to a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction leading to various 1,2,3-substituted cyclopropane with high enantioselectivities and excellent diastereoselectivities. These cyclopropylborinates are versatile intermediates as other functionalization reactions have been developed for these compounds.
Cyclopropylborinates 1,2,3-substituted cyclopropanes Simmons-Smith reaction Cyclopropylzinc Cyclopropylborinates Boron-zinc exchange