Approach to synthesis of novel chiral 3-chloro-2(5H)-furanone and its application in asymmetric reactions

Abstract

The synthetic method of the novel chiral synthon, 5-l-menthyloxy-3-chloro-2-(5H)-furanone 5a and its application in asymmetric reactions were investigated. 5a is easily obtained in highly optical purity, and acts as a stable acceptor of Michael addition with oxygen nucleophiles in tandem double Michael addition / internal nucleophilic substitution to offer the spiro-cyclopropane derivative containing four stereogenic centers 8, which it is difficult to obtain by routine methods. The synthetic methods for 5a and 8 are reported in detail and the new compounds are identified on the basis of their analytical data and spectroscopic data, such as UV, IR,1H NMR,13C NMR, MS and elementary analysis. The absolute configuration of the interesting spiro-cyclopropanes, spiro [1-chloro-4-(l-menthyloxy)-5-oxo-6-oxa-biscyclo[3.1.0]hexane-2,3′-(4′-/-menthyloxy-5′-l-menthyloxybutyrolactone)] 8 was established by X-ray crystallography. This result can provide important synthetic strategy in synthesis of some complex molecules containing spiro-cyclopropane skeleton with multiple chiral centers.