Natural products have been demonstrated to be of great significance to the pharmaceutical industry in the development of new drugs and medicine. Unfortunately, synthetic approaches to obtain these natural products often prove increasingly challenging due to the complexity of synthesizing the target drug in the proper stereochemistry. The availability of enantioselective reactions can play a pivotal role in overcoming this challenge, yielding access to optically pure intermediates and products. Chiral ligands based on a trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane motif are often employed for this purpose and their complexes with transition metals have been demonstrated to act as efficient chiral catalysts in asymmetric reactions. In contrast, studies involving cis-1,2-diaminocyclohexane derivatives as chiral catalysts are strongly underrepresented. We have designed and performed the synthesis of an axially chiral conformationally locked cis-1,2-diamine scaffold, conveniently designed for further derivatization into more complex structures. A key step in this synthesis was the chiral resolution of a racemic intermediate, realized through both chemical and enzymatic means in a comparative study. Utilizing the newly gained optically pure primary diamine scaffold, a library of chemically diverse secondary diamine ligands has been synthesized and characterized through NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and chiral HPLC. Assignment of the absolute configuration within the cis-1,2-diamine scaffold was realized through single-crystal X-ray crystallography experiments on one of the synthetic intermediates. The synthesized ligands have been evaluated for their potential to function as chiral catalysts in the asymmetric Henry reaction and asymmetric transfer hydrogenation. As a function of both steric and electronic structural variation, a range of catalytic activities and enantioselectivities in the Henry reaction were observed. The ligands proved to be less suitable for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation with only a select number of ligands catalyzing the reaction, and a single example resulting in a decent enantioselectivity. We additionally explored the possibility of incorporating a chemical switch into the scaffold, responsible for switching the axial chirality of the molecule. As a consequence of inverting the axial chirality, the configuration of the potential reaction product in asymmetric synthesis would also be inverted. To this extent, we performed the synthesis of a novel specifically designed crown ether, dicyclohexeno-18-crown-6, furnished with two π-bonds in the cyclohexane rings, allowing for additional modification into more advanced functionalized structures.

Le but de ce travail était la préparation de dérivés cyclobutaniques du GABA optiquement purs et leur utilisation dans la préparation de γ/α-peptides pouvant adopter une structure tridimensionnelle bien définie. Pour cela, deux stratégies ont été développées. La première consistait en l’utilisation de la β-Cyclodextrine comme hôte supramoléculaire chirale lors de cyclizations photochimiques énantiosélectives. La tentative de cyclisation [2+2] intramoléculaire du N-allyl-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)acrylamide n’a conduit qu’à un δ-lactame issu d’une électrocyclisation 6π. L’électrocyclisation de la 1,3-dihydro-2H-azepin-2-one nous a permis d’obtenir le γ-latame bicyclique précurseur du (+)-cis-3,4CB-GABA avec un excès énantiomérique de 45%. La deuxième stratégie était basée sur une synthèse racémique du N-Boc-cis-3,4CB-GABA suivi d’une séparation des deux énantiomères par CLHP semi-préparative avec une colonne chirale. Les (-) et (+)-cis-3,4CB-GABA optiquement purs ont ainsi été obtenu à l’échelle du gramme. Ces deux énantiomères (-) et (+)-cis-3,4CB-GABA ont ensuite été utilisés pour la préparation de deux séries de peptides mixtes γ/α, diastéréoisomères [(S,S/R) et (R,R/R)] à courtes chaines contenant alternativement le cis-3,4CB-GABA et le D-Alanine. L'analyse des conformations des dipeptides des deux séries par Diffraction des Rayons X, n'a montré aucune interaction intramoléculaire mais plutôt un assemblage de liaisons d'hydrogène intermoléculaires entre les molécules du dipeptide. D'autre part, les études RMN 1D et 2D (en solution) ont montré que le tétrapeptide des séries (S,S/R) pourraient avoir une structure hélicoïdale 12/10, tandis que son analogue diastéréoisomères des séries (R,R/R), a montré, en solution, une nouvelle structure sous forme de ruban 7/9. / This work revolves around the synthesis of ennatiomerically pure cyclobutane derivatives of GABA, and their use in the preparation of hybrid γ/α-peptides that could adopt a well-defined three dimensional secondary structure. In this aim we developed two strategies. The first one employed native β-Cyclodextrin as a supramolecular chiral host to achieve enantiodifferentiating photochemical cyclizations. Attempting to perform an intramolecular [2+2] cyclization of N-allyl-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)acrylamide, we only obtained a δ-lactam resulting from a 6π electrocyclization, whereas the electrocyclization of 1,3-Dihydro‑2H‑azepin-2-one allowed access to a 45% enantiomerically enriched bicyclic γ-lactam precursor of (+)-cis-3,4CB-GABA. The second strategy was based on a racemic synthesis of N-Boc-cis-3,4CB-GABA followed by a separation of the two enantiomers using a semi-preparative HPLC fitted with a chiral column. This allowed access to optically pure (-) and (+)-cis-3,4CB-GABA, on a gram scale. Furthermore, the enantiomerically pure (-) and (+)-cis-3,4CB-GABA, were used to synthesize, and fully characterize two series [the (S,S/R) and the (R,R/R)] of short diasteriomeric hybrid γ/α-peptides composed of alternating cis-3,4CB-GABA and D-Alanine. Analysis of the conformational behavior of the dipeptides from both series by X-Ray diffraction on a single crystal, showed no intramolecular interactions but rather an array of intermolecular hydrogen bonding between the dipeptide molecules. On the other hand, a series of 1D and 2D NMR experiments showed that the tetrapeptide of the (S,S/R)-series could attain a 12/10 helical structuration, whereas its diasteriomeric analog of the (R,R/R)-series, displayed evidence of an unprecedented 7/9 folding pattern in solution.

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