Organocatalysed synthesis of isoxazolines initiated by a chemoselective oxa-Michael reaction of N-BocNHOH.

An organocatalysed and chemoselective one-pot oxa-Michael-cyclocondensation reaction of N-BocNHOH to unsaturated α-ketoesters is reported which affords an original entry to enantioenriched 3-isoxazoline carboxylate derivatives as biorelevant heterocyclic frameworks.

Diastereoselective protonation of lactam enolates derived from (R)-phenylglycinol. A novel asymmetric route to 4-phenyl-1,2,3, 4-tetrahydroisoquinolines.

Highly diastereoselective protonation of chiral lactam enolates of 4-substituted-1,4-dihydroisoquinolin-3-ones is reported. Protonation and alkylation processes of these lactam enolates derived from phenylglycinol occur with opposite diastereofacial selectivity. This diastereoselective protonation has been applied to the asymmetric synthesis of (4S)-N-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline 9 obtained in up to 97% ee.