A Systematic Study of the Effects of Relative Configuration, Protecting Group, and Enolate Type on the Diastereoselectivities of Aldol Reactions of a Chiral Ethyl Ketone with 2-Methylpropanal
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Abstract
The diastereoselectivities of aldol reactions of 2-methylpropanal with various enolates of 5-O-methoxymethyl and 5-O-triethylsilyl derivatives of the four racemic diastereomers of 6-(2-ethyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)-5-hydroxy-4-methylheptan-3-one are reported. Reactions of the (E)-enol dicyclohexylborinates, (Z)-enol 9-BBN borinates (i.e., 9-((Z)-enoxy)-9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes), Li (E)-enolates, Li (Z)-enolates, and Ti(IV) (Z)-enolates were examined. Boron and Li enolates were prepared by standard methods, but Ti(IV) enolates were obtained via transmetalation of the Li (Z)-enolates by reaction with TiCln(Oi-Pr)(4-n) (n = 0-2). Aldol relative topicity (simple diastereoselectivity) was strongly correlated to the enolate geometry: anti aldols from (E)-enolates and syn aldols from (Z)-enolates. However, for each enolate type, the diastereoface selectivities varied widely (by factors of 5-400) with the relative configuration and nature of the C5 protecting group in the 8 starting ketones. Plausible transition state models are postulated to rationalize some of these observations. The relative configurations for the complete set of 16 diastereomeric 2-(2-ethyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)-7-hydroxy-3-(methoxymethoxy)-4,6,8-trimethylnonan-5-one aldol adducts were confirmed by NMR analysis of 12 acetonide derivatives prepared from the corresponding 5,7-syn diols. Examination of the NMR data for the above set of aldol adducts revealed consistent trends that were exploited to assign the relative configurations of 13 diastereomeric 2-(2-ethyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)-7-hydroxy-3-(triethylsilyloxy)-4,6,8-trimethylnonan-5-one aldol adducts.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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