Efficient synthesis of optically active α-substituted glutamate analogs possessing α-hydroxymethyl and α-alkoxymethyl groups
✍ Scribed by Masanori Kawasaki; Kosuke Namba; Hidekazu Tsujishima; Tetsuro Shinada; Yasufumi Ohfune
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
Highly enantioselective synthesis of (2R)-a-(hydroxymethyl)glutamate (1), a selective agonist of mGluR2 and 3, was achieved in short steps using an asymmetric version of the Strecker synthesis. This was converted into its a-methoxymethyland a-benzyloxymethyl derivatives 2 and 3, possible ligands as tools to investigate glutamate receptors, via protection of the sterically hindered amino group by means of phase transfer catalyst.
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