Acylations chiral amines

E.C. 3.5.1.4) used to prepare amino acids, usually through resolution, and also penicillin G acylase (penicillin G amidohydrolase) (E.C. 3.5.1.11), used in the manufacture of semisynthetic penicillins.152 153 Immobilized penicillin G acylase has most recently been used to catalyze the formation of. V-a-phenylacetyl amino acids, which can then be used in peptide coupling reactions (see Section 19.2.3.2).154 Bacterial aminoacylase I (.V-acyl-i.-amino acid amidohydrolase, E.C. 3.5.1.14) has also been used to acylate chiral amines with poor to moderate enantioselectively.155... 

The synthesis of y-butyorolactones was achieved by Kurth et a/. 1.272 a-alkylation and subsequent iodo-lactonisation of Al-acylated chiral amines (Scheme 1.6.35). Pyrrolidine 67 72 was more selective in both alkylation and cyclisation as supported L-prolinol 66.271 Both chiral... 

Over the past years, interest in the preparation of chiral amines and amides by enzymatic ammonolysis or aminolysis reactions [4] has greatly increased for academic and industrial sectors. The role that the enzymatic acylation of amines or ammonia plays for the preparation of some pharmaceuticals is noteworthy [5]. 

In recent years, a great variety of primary chiral amines have been obtained in enantiomerically pure form through this methodology. A representative example is the KR of some 2-phenylcycloalkanamines that has been performed by means of aminolysis reactions catalyzed by lipases (Scheme 7.17) [34]. Kazlauskas rule has been followed in all cases. The size of the cycle and the stereochemistry of the chiral centers of the amines had a strong influence on both the enantiomeric ratio and the reaction rate of these aminolysis processes. CALB showed excellent enantioselec-tivities toward frans-2-phenylcyclohexanamine in a variety of reaction conditions ( >150), but the reaction was markedly slower and occurred with very poor enantioselectivity with the cis-isomer, whereas Candida antarctica lipase A (GALA) was the best catalyst for the acylation of cis-2-phenylcyclohexanamine ( = 34) and frans-2-phenylcyclopropanamine ( =7). Resolution of both cis- and frans-2-phenyl-cyclopentanamine was efficiently catalyzed by CALB obtaining all stereoisomers with high enantiomeric excess. 

To a much smaller extent non-enzymic processes have also been used to catalyse the stereoselective acylation of alcohols. For example, a simple tripeptide has been used, in conjunction with acetic anhydride, to convert rram-2-acctylaminocyclohexanol into the (K),(R)-Qster and recovered (S),(S)-alcohol[17]. In another, related, example a chiral amine, in the presence of molecular sieve and the appropriate acylating agent, has been used as a catalyst in the conversion of cyclohexane-1(S), 2(/ )-diol into 2(S)-benzoyloxy-cyclohexan-1 f / j-ol1 IS]. Such alternative methods have not been extensively explored, though reports by Fu, Miller, Vedejs and co-workers on enantioselective esterifications, for example of 1-phenylethanol and other substrates using /. vo-propyl anhydride and a chiral phosphine catalyst will undoubtedly attract more attention to this area1191. 

Although in recent years transesterification processes of racemic alcohols have received major attention, enzymatic acylation of amines for synthetic purposes is also being employed as a conventional tool for the synthesis of chiral amines and amides [31], using CALB as the biocatalyst in the majority of these reactions [31a]. The main difference between enzymatic acylation of alcohols and amines is the use of the corresponding acyl donor, because activated esters which are of utility... 

Other similar lipase/esterase resolution processes have been developed such as the use of Bacillus that esterase to produce the substituted propanoic acids that are precursors of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drags, snch as naproxen and ibuprofen etc., and the formation of chiral amines by Celgene. Other methods start from prochiral precursors and have the advantage that enantioselective synthesis allows the production of particular isomers in yields approaching 100%, rather than the 50% yields characteristic of resolution processes. For instance Hoechst have patented the production of enantiomers using Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase to either acylate diols or hydrolyse diacetate esters. 

The C2-symmetrical chiral amine tran.v-(2/ ,6y )-2,6-bis(benzyloxymethyl)piperidine (1), prepared15 from commercially available (S)-2-(benzyloxymethyl)oxirane, has been used in diastereoselective amide alkylations. Thus, the chiral amine of 76% ee is acylated [anhydride or mixed trimethylacetic acid anhydride, 1.2 equivalents of triethylamine and 0.05 equivalents of 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine] and the resulting amide 2 treated with 2.1 equivalents of lithium diisopropylamide at —78 CC to give the enolate. This is then alkylated to give high diastereo-meric ratios (>94 6) of alkylation products 3 in 60-93% yield16. 

In continuation of our investigations on asymmetric nucleophilic acylations with lithiated a-aminonitriles [40], we envisaged the asymmetric synthesis of 3-substituted 5-amino-4-oxo esters A, bearing both a-amino ketone and 5-amino ester functionalities (Scheme 1.1.14) [41]. Since a-amino ketones are precursors of chiral p-amino alcohols [42, 43] and chiral amines [43], their asymmetric synthesis has the potential to provide valuable intermediates for the synthesis of biologically active compounds, including peptidomimetics [44]. The retrosynthetic analysis of A leads to the a-aminoacyl carbanion B and p-ester carbocation... 

Scheme 4.37 Preferentially acylated enantiomers of some chiral amines.

Chiral amines are valuable synthons that dominate agrochemicals and pharmaceutical drug pipelines. Current methods for the preparation of amines are largely based upon resolution, and this is an excellent example of an industrial success. BASF makes a range of chiral amines by acylating racemic amines with proprietary esters, whereby one enantiomer is acylated to the amide, which can be easily separated from the unreacted amine [7]. For example, the resolution of racemic 15 in... 

Figure 10.15 Enantioselective acylation of chiral amines mediated by CaLB.

The resolution of chiral amines via lipase-catalyzed enantioselective acylation is now a major industrial process, but interest in adopting ionic liquid reaction media has been surprisingly scant. Interestingly, acids could be used as the acyl donor (Figure 10.15) rather than the usual activated ester in a range ofionic liquids. CaLB was employed as the biocatalyst, and water was removed to shift the equilibrium toward the product [130, 131]. The highest rates were found in [BMMIm][TfO], [EMIm][TfO], and [EMIm][BF4]. 

Although a number of methods for the asymmetric acylation of a-chiral amines using stoichiometric amounts of chiral acylating agents have been developed... 

Similarly, the DKR of chiral amines can, in principle, be achieved by combining the known amine resolution by lipase-catalyzed acylation [23] with metal-cat-... 

Conjugate addition reactions of N-nucleophiles with double stereodifferentiation are known in some cases11-116. While direct reaction of chiral amines with chiral enones11 leads to poor enantiomeric excess of the resulting /l-amino acids, reaction of chiral amines116 with acylated chiral iron complexes gives /J-amino acids with a high enantiomeric excess. 

The nitrogen atom in a-ferrocenylalkylamines generally shows the same reaction pattern as that in other amines alkylation and acylation do not provide synthetic problems. Due to the high stability of the a-ferrocenylalkyl carbocations, ammonium salts readily lose amine and are, therefore, important synthetic intermediates. Acylation of primary amines with esters of formic acid gives the formamides, which can be dehydrated to isocyanides by the standard POClj/diisopropylamine technique (Fig. 4-16) [92]. Chiral isocyanides are obtained from chiral amines without any racemization during the reaction sequence. The isocyanides undergo normal a-addition at the isocyanide carbon, but could not be deprotonated at the a-carbon by even strong bases. This deviation from the normal reactivity of isocyanides prompted us to study the electrochemistry of these compounds, but no abnormal redox behaviour, compared with that of other ferrocene derivatives, was detected [93]. The isocyanides form chromium pentacarbonyl complexes on treatment with Cr(CO)s(THF) (Fig. 4-16) and electrochemistry demonstrated that there is no electronic interaction between the two metal centres. 

The first enantioselective total synthesis of (-)-tejedine was completed by P.E. Georghiou using a chiral auxiliary-assisted diastereoselective Bischler-Napieralsid cycHzation as one of the key steps.The chiral auxiliary was the commercially available (S)-a-methylbenzylamine, which was coupled to the substrate using the original Schotten-Baumann acylation conditions. The acid chloride was reacted with the chiral amine in a solvent mixture containing aqueous sodium hydroxide and dichloromethane and the desired amide was isolated in excellent yield. 

Nondynamic resolution processes for the production of chiral amines are based on selective N-acylation by either lipases from Burkholderia plantarii (Scheme 4.5C) or Alcaligenes faecalis penicillin G acylases (Scheme 4.5D). The former reaction is optimal with ethylmethoxyacetate as acylating agent [30 a], whereas fhe acylase is most selective with the natural substrate phenylacetic acid [30b]. 

The first chemoenzymatic synthesis of organoselenium containing amines was recently reported by Andrade and Silva (Figure 14.7) [10]. Compounds containing a selenium atom have important antioxidant and anti inflammatory activities. Lipase mediated acylation of amine 13 gave the corresponding chiral amides 14 and amines 13 with excellent enantioselectivity (up to 99% ee). 

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