Titanium(IV) enolate chemistry applied to the stereoselective construction of C–C and C–O bonds. New ionic and radical processes

[eng] In the present Thesis we continued a previous study of the nucleophilic character of titanium(IV) enolates. Particularly,we focused our attention on the analysis of substrate-controlled Michael additions to enones and other acceptors.Thus, the Michael addition of (S)-2-benzyloxy-3-pentanoneto enones was thoroughly evaluatedin Chapter 1. In the case of vinyl ketones, the best reaction conditions involved the use of two TiCl4 equivalents and afforded the 2,4-antiadducts as single diastereomers in excellent yields. In addition, the developed methodology was also evaluated with β- substituted enones, whose optimised conditions using TiCl4 and SnCl4 afforded the 2,4- anti-4,5-antiadducts with diastereoselectivities above 90:10 in all cases with good yields. Furthermore, the Michael addition of (S)-2-benzyloxy-3-pentanoneto α,β- unsaturated nitroalkenes was alsoanalysed inChapter 1. The use of two equivalents of TiCl4and aromatic nitroalkenes led to the 2,4-anti-4,5-syn adducts with excellent yields and diastereoselectivities. In turn, aliphatic nitroalkenes needed optimised conditions using TiCl4 and SnCl4 to afford the 2,4-anti-4,5-syn adducts in good diastereoselectivities and yields. Finally, the nitro group was converted into other useful functional groups. Another objective of the first part of this thesis wasto re-evaluate the synthesis of the tetrahydropyran ring from the C1-C9 fragment of herboxidiene/GEX1A. Thus, in Chapter 2 we analysed the initial retrosynthesis of the C1-C9 fragment and studied the oxa-Michael cyclization. Finally, we designed two parallel sequences to improve the first synthetic approach.The stereoselective synthesis of the tetrahydropyran ring was successfully accomplished following two different approaches. In approach 1, the number of steps was increased, but the sequence pursued a fully stereoselective pathway taking advantage of the great selectivity offered by a dimethylpyrrole amide under acidic conditions attaining a 54% yield (46% for the original approach). In approach 2, ...