Acylamino acids, preparation

Stannyl esters have been prepared to protect a -COOH group in the presence of an -NH2 group [( -Bu3Sn)20 or -Bu3SnOH, CgH, reflux, 88%]. Stannyl esters of A -acylamino acids are stable to reaction with anhydrous amines and to water and alcohols aqueous amines convert them to ammonium salts. Stannyl esters of amino acids are cleaved in quantitative yield by water or alcohols (PhSK, DMF, 25°, 15 min, 63% yield or HOAc, EtOH, 25°, 30 min, 77% yield). ... 

The azlactones of a-benzoylaminocinnamic acids have traditionally been prepared by the action of hippuric acid (1, Ri = Ph) and acetic anhydride upon aromatic aldehydes, usually in the presence of sodium acetate. The formation of the oxazolone (2) in Erlenmeyer-Plochl synthesis is supported by good evidence. The method is a way to important intermediate products used in the synthesis of a-amino acids, peptides and related compounds. The aldol condensation reaction of azlactones (2) with carbonyl compounds is often followed by hydrolysis to provide unsaturated a-acylamino acid (4). Reduction yields the corresponding amino acid (6), while drastic hydrolysis gives the a-0X0 acid (5). ... 

The two-step activation of oxazolidinones is depicted in Fig. 8.26. Hydrolysis yields an A-(l -hydroxy alkyl) derivative, which breaks down to liberate the peptide or A-acylamino acid (Fig. 8.26, Reactions a and b). Since oxazolidinones are prepared by the condensation of a peptide and an aldehyde (Fig. 8.26, Reaction c), the reverse reaction (i. e., one-step activation) cannot be excluded. Examples of this type of prodrug are provided by a series of oxazolidinones of the general structure 8.190 (R = PhCH20 R = H, Me, i-Pr, or PhCH2 R" = H, Me, or Ph Fig. 8.26) [248]. In phosphate buf-... 

Similarly, acylamino acids can be prepared with 100% atom utilization via palladium-catalyzed amidocarbonylation. " The method was used for the synthesis of a surfactant from sarcosine (Figure 9.8). 

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Nohira et al. treated N-acylamino acids 195 with thionyl chloride mixed anhydrides 196 were formed below 30°C. The latter compounds gave the first type of hexahydro-2//-3,l-benzoxazin-4-one 197 on triethylamine treatment [77H(7)301]. This reaction was also performed with diexo- and diendo-substituted j8-amino acids 198 yielded the 5,8-methano-2//-3,l-benzoxazin-4-ones 199 via the acyl derivatives 200 (84S345,84T2385). Further homologs were also prepared by the dehydration of N-acylamino acid derivatives (85MI1 88MI3). 

The oxidation by molecular oxygen or the base-catalyzed oxidative decarboxylation of saturated 5(4//)-oxazolones 278 yields diacylamines and provides an efficient procedure to prepare imides 279 from Al-acylamino acids (Scheme 7.90). 

The first procedure to prepare unsaturated 5(4//)-oxazolones was the Erlenmeyer synthesis" " that was described more than one hundred years ago and is still used extensively with some variations in the experimental conditions. In general, the reaction employs an acylamino acid, for example, A-acetyl- or A-benzoylglycine are the most common, and a carbonyl compound, usually an aldehyde, in the presence of a cyclodehydrating agent such as acetic anhydride (Scheme 7.114). Hundreds of unsaturated oxazolones 363 have been obtained via this procedure and these compounds are valuable intermediates for the synthesis of many interesting organic compounds. 

Other alcohols ring-open unsaturated oxazolones including glycerol that was used to prepare monoglycerides of acylamino acids.In addition, alcoholysis with 3,4,4-trifluorobut-3-enol leads to amino acid fluorobutenyl esters that are used as pesticides.Finally, (dimethylamino)ethanol and other amino alcohols have also been used to obtain the corresponding aminoalkyl esters. 

In the heterocyclic series, racemic 3-(fur-2-yl)alanine has been prepared from furfural using this approach. In addition, (3-(pyrid-3-yl)alanine, ° p-(quinol-3-yl)alanine, ° a p-(benzofuranyl)alanine derivative, 2-amino-3-(2,2 -bipyridi-nyl)propanoic acid, and some interesting derivatives of histidines—in particular 1-alkylhistidines with amphiphilic properties have all been synthesized using this methodology. The complete reaction sequence starting from an aldehyde and an A-acylamino acid derivative is shown in Scheme 7.150. 

The method of N-chlorination of amino acid esters 40 and AT-acylamino acid esters with tert-butyl hypochlorite and subsequent elimination of hydrogen chloride is of general use in the preparation of DHA derivatives 41/42 122-1241 (Scheme 15). 

Anhydro-5-hydroxyoxazolium hydroxides lacking substituents at C(4) dimerize spontaneously by a process in which one molecule acts as an electrophile and the other as a nucleophile (Scheme 21). This accounts for the fact that dimeric products of this type are obtained by the action of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide on acylamino acids of the general formula R1C0NR2CH2C02H. Substituents at position 4 stabilize the mesoionic system the first compounds to be prepared were the acetyl derivatives (220) (B-49MI41800) and (221) (58Cl(L)46l) and much of the more recent work has been carried out with the relatively stable methyldiphenyl compound (222). This miinchnone decomposes above 115 °C to yield the allene (225) with loss of carbon dioxide. The mechanism proposed for this remarkable reaction (Scheme 22) involves valence isomerization to the ketene (223), which undergoes a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with the miinchnone. The product loses carbon dioxide to form a new betaine (224), which collapses to the allene as shown. 

The standard procedure for the preparation of 5(4/J)-oxazolones is dehydration of a-acylamino acids with acetic anhydride (equation 150). Saturated azlactones lacking a substituent at C(4) are rather sensitive and difficult to isolate and in such cases it is... 

The standard method of preparing anhydro-5-hydroxyoxazolium hydroxides (300) is by dehydration of iV-substituted a-acylamino acids, usually with acetic anhydride (equation 154) dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and trifluoroacetic anhydride have also been used. N-Acylglycines (299 R3=H) give rise to unstable mesoionic oxazoles which tend to dimerize (see Section 4.18.3.1.5(0) if such acids are treated with trifluoroacetic anhydride, stable trifluoroacetyl derivatives (300 R3 = CF3CO) are isolated. Numerous unstable betaines (300 R1, R = alkyl or aryl, R -H) have been generated by the action of triethylamine on the corresponding hydroperchlorates, prepared by the method shown in equation (151). 

Phenolic esters are obtained similarly. The presence of a nitro group in the aromatic nucleus and the use of pyridine as solvent facilitates the reaction. This reaction is recommended for the characterization of phenols. 2,4,5-Trichlorophenyl-, pentachlorophenyl-, 4-nitrophenyl- and thiophenyl esters of N-acylamino acids are prepared in this manner. These aromatic esters are used in the stepwise lengthening of peptides, du Vigneaud and coworkers synthesized lysine vasopressin from a nonapeptide which they prepared stepwise using the nitrophenyl ester method. Room temperature esterification of dicarboxylic acids and diphenols are also carbodiimide mediated using the 1 1 complex derived from DMAP and p-toluenesulfonic acid as catalyst Methacrylic acid is also esterified with phenols using carbodiimides and DMPA to mediate the reaction. ... 

Sometimes the addition of a small amount of ZnCh as a catalyst is recommended, e.g. succinic acid is transformed to the dichloride only in the presence of this catalyst. It has to be noticed, however, that under these conditions hydrogen chloride is evolved and, therefore, acid sensitive compounds cannot be taken. Af-acylamino acid chlorides and chlorides of fully acetylated sugar acids are also obtainable in yields of 70% or more. Whereas most reagents seem to be unsuited to the preparation of acid halides of a-keto acids, dichloromethyl methyl ether is successful in this reaction (equation 10). Pyruvyl chloride can now be made in ca. 50% yield. In some examples the corresponding a,a-dibromomethyl methyl ether has also been tested. ... 

Preparation of S-acylamino acid esters and similar derivatives for analysis... 

Active pentachlorophenyl esters of amino acids have also been prepared by ester exchange of trialkylammonium salts of acylamino acids with pentachlorophenyl trichloroacetate or dichloroacetate.2 2M. Fujino and C. Hatanaka,Chem. Pharm. Bull., 16,929 (1968)... 

The enzymatic hydrolysis of N-acylamino acids has been known for a century and was first detected in aqueous kidney preparations 3. Based on the finding that this enzymatic hydrolysis proceeds enantiospecifically 2, Greenstein and coworkers developed a general and very attractive procedure for the resolution of a vast number of racemic N-acylated amino acids to the corresponding L-amino acids catalyzed by aminoacylase (E.C. 3.5.1.14) whereas the N-acetyl-D-amino acid does not react13 (Fig. 12.3-1). 

An important variation of the Perkin reaction is the Erlenmeyer azalactone synthesis exemplified by equation (4), involving condensation of an aldehyde and an N-acylglycine derivative in the presence of acetic anhydride and sodium acetate. Although this reaction, analogous to the classical Perkin condensation, was initially limited to the use of aromatic aldehydes, Baltazzi and Robinson reported that the use of lead acetate and THF allowed the preparation of several azalactones derived from aliphatic aldehydes (equation 15). The results for the condensation of several aldehydes and ketones with hippuric acid (28) under these conditions are shown in Table 2. The reaction proceeds through the intermediate (26) (intramolecular condensation of 25), which reacts with the aldehyde in Perkin fashion to provide the so-called azalactone product (Scheme 8). It is the formation of such oxazolones from acylamino acids which is be-... 

The formamides resulting from the use of hydrogen cyanide can be particularly easily hydrolysed to the amines, thus providing an elegant method for synthesis of tertiary alkylamines that are otherwise difficult of access.21 The reaction is capable of very wide generalization and is suitable also for the preparation of other classes of compound such as A-acylamino acids,23 isoquinolines,24 and oxazolines.25... 

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