Syntheses and some features of five new cyclohexane-1,3-dicarboxylates with multiple stereogenic centers

The condensation of diethyl 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-6-oxo-2-(4-substitutedphenyl)-cyclohexane-1,3-dicarboxylates and N′-(2-chloropropyl)ethane-1,2-diamine leads to diethyl 1-(2-chloropropyl)-9-hydroxy-9-methyl-7-phenyl-1,4-diazaspiro[4.5]decane-6,8-dicarboxylate (2) and its para-substituted methyl (1), chloro (3), bromo (4), and nitro (5) derivatives with a new stereogenic center, which were fully characterized by elemental analysis, ESI-MS, IR, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopies and X-ray single-crystal analysis (for 2). The condensation reaction is regioselective, only cyclohexanone carbonyl moiety undergoes the transformation, leaving the β-keto ester carbonyls unreacted. Withing the compounds 1–5, the increase in the Hammett’s σp, related normal σ p n , inductive σI, negative σ p - and positive σ p + polar conjugation and Taft’s σ p o substituent constants generally leads to the corresponding drift of δOH and δNH NMR chemical shifts to lower field.