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Asymmetric Synthesis Employing a Chiral 5-Methoxy-1,4-oxazin-2-one Derivative: Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure α-Quaternary α-Amino Acids

✍ Scribed by Oliver Achatz; Andrea Grandl; Klaus Theodor Wanner


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
423 KB
Volume
1999
Category
Article
ISSN
1434-193X

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✦ Synopsis


A new asymmetric synthesis of disubstituted α-amino acids

From the major diastereomers 17c-d the corresponding αamino acids 19c-d are obtained enantiomerically pure upon is presented. This synthesis is based on the chiral 5-methoxy-1,4-oxazin-2-one derivative 5 relying on the α-hydroxy acid hydrolytic cleavage with aqueous sodium hydroxide. Alkylation of the enolate ion of 5 with epichlorohydrines as 1 as a chiral auxiliary. Alkylation reactions of the glycine equivalent 5 are performed by deprotonation with sec-bifunctional electrophiles provides the cyclopropyl derivatives 20a-b. Direct hydrolysis or oxidation of 20a-b, butyllithium and subsequent reaction with alkyl halides, yielding the monoalkylated compounds 13 and 14. A second followed by reductive amination and hydrolysis leads to the substituted 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acids 21a-b and alkylation step of the lithium enolates of 13 and 14 leads to the α,α-disubstituted compounds 17. Both steps proceed with 24a-b. good yields and excellent stereoselectivities (up to 99% de).