Amino acid esters resolution

Enzymatic hydrolysis of A/-acylamino acids by amino acylase and amino acid esters by Hpase or carboxy esterase (70) is one kind of kinetic resolution. Kinetic resolution is found in chemical synthesis such as by epoxidation of racemic allyl alcohol and asymmetric hydrogenation (71). New routes for amino acid manufacturing are anticipated. 

Dynamic Kinetic Resolution Synthesis of a Fluorinated Amino Acid Ester Amide by a Continuous Process Lipase-mediated Ethanolysis of an Azalactone... 

Resolution of d- and L-Amino Acid Derivatives 5.03.5.4.1 Resolution of racemic amino acid esters... 

H) Resolution of amino acid esters with subtilisin The commercial Prt Alcalase from... 

Novozymes, a subtilisin produced by Bacillus licheniformis, was used by Chen et al ° to carry out a dynamic kinetic resolution of benzyl, butyl, or propyl esters of DL-phenylalanine, tyrosine, and leucine. The hydrolysis was performed at pH 8.5 in 2-methyl-2-propanol/water (19 1) and the freed L-amino acids precipitated. The key feature bringing about continual racemization of the remaining D-amino acid esters was the inclusion of 20 mmol 1 pyridoxal phosphate. 

Chiral crown ethers have been employed extensively (48-53, 56-60, 86, 90, 93-95, 107, no, 116, 117, 128, 143, 144, 152-155, 158-161, 163, 164, 212-227) for enantiomeric recognition of racemic primary alkyl ammonium cations including those associated with amino acid ester salts. Resolutions have been effected employing both bulk and chromatographic procedures. 

Figure 2.6 By resolution of df-amino acid esters under conditions of dynamic resolution 100% of a single enantiomer may be produced. Using catalytic amounts of pyiidoxyl-5-phosphate, which forms a Schiff s base with the ester and not the acid, the unreacted D-ester may be racemised in situ and for instance L-tyrosin has been obtained in 97% ee and 95% yield.

Finally, it is noted that suitable enantiomers of helicenes have been applied as selector for non-helical compounds. The disodium salt of P-( +)-7,10-dicarboxy hexahelicene coated on silicagel was successfully used in resolving the N-(2,4-dinitro-phenyl)-a-amino acid esters. Good resolutions were found for alanine, isoleucine, valine, phenylalanine and phenylglycine 94). 

Makino, K., Hiroki, Y. and Hamada, Y. Dynamic Kinetic Resolution Catalyzed by Ir Axially Chiral Phosphine Catalyst Asymmetric S3mthesis of anti-Aromatic -Hydroxy-ot-amino Acid Esters. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5784—5785. 

The resolution of optically active compounds by gas chromatography with chiral phases is a well-established procedure, and the separation of IV-perfluoro-acetylated amino acid ester enantiomers in 1967 was the first successful application of enantioselective gas-liquid chromatography [39] Amino acids have been resolved as their A-trifluoroacetyl esters on chiral diamide phases such as N-lauroyl-L-valine rerr-butylamide or iV-docosanoyl-L-valine fert-butylamide [40,41,... 

One example is the optically active amino acid derivative (S)-20n which contains a bipyridyl substituent (Scheme 3.14). The alkylation reaction in the presence of the cinchona alkaloid catalyst 33 proceeds with 53% ee (83% yield of (S)-20n) and gave the desired enantiomerically pure a-amino acid ester (S)-20n in >99% ee after re-crystallization [43]. Subsequent hydrolysis of the optically pure (S)-20n furnished the desired unprotected a-amino acid 35. A different purification method, subsequent enzymatic resolution, reported by Bowler et al., furnished the a-amino acid product 35 with enantioselectivity of 95% ee [44],... 

Resolutions of racemic mixtures are by far the most frequent applications of biocatalysts in the pharmaceutical industry. Repic et al., of the process research and development group at Novartis, recently published work to develop a method for the resolution of racemic (3-amino acid esters, an important class of intermediates for the preparation of peptidomimetics [21]. The Novartis group used Chiro-CLEC -EC [22] in 2% aqueous toluene to selectively acylate several different 3-amino esters (Fig. 4). The authors were able to isolate the desired (S) isomer of the amino esters in >95% ee in a simple one-step reaction and described it as a method which could be amenable for large-scale preparation. 

In Fig. 11, at high concentrations of ethylene carbonate, the rate constants ks[EC] and kR[EC] for insertion into the EBTHI zirconaaziridine 17q are much greater than kSSR and ksss and insertion occurs more rapidly than the equilibrium can be maintained. The product ratio reflects the equilibrium of 17q, where Keq is 17.2 (Eq. 32) [21]. Beak has called this limit a dynamic thermodynamic resolution pathway [66]. In contrast, at the lowest concentration of ethylene carbonate in Fig. 10, the first-order rate constants kSSR and ksss for diastereomer interconversion are comparable to the effective first-order rate constants for insertion. As Keq is known to be 17.2, ks/kR can be calculated the 53% ee of (S)-amino acid ester 19q (Scheme 9) implies that kslkR<0.19 (Eq. 33) and that the rate constant for insertion kR[EC] into the minor diastereomer is at least five times faster than ks[EC] into the major diastereomer. 

Schem 13.17 Kinetic resolution of amino acid esters coupled with pyridoxalphosphate mediated in situ racemization.

Hydrolyses. The presence of hydrolytic enzymes in BY is well documented. However, the use of the yeast for biocatalytic ester hydrolysis suffers because of the availability of commercially available purified hydrolases. Nonetheless, the hydrolytic ability of fermenting BY has been proposed for the resolution of various amino acid esters (eq 14). The BY-mediated enantioselective hydrolysis has also been applied to the resolution of acetates of hydroxyalkynes and a hydroxybutanolide. ... 

Chromatographic batch reactors are employed to prepare instable reagents on the laboratory scale (Coca et al., 1993) and for the production of fine chemicals. These applications include the racemic resolution of amino acid esters (Kalbe et al., 1989), acid-catalyzed sucrose inversion (Lauer, 1980), production of dextran (Zafar and Barker, 1988) and saccharification of starch to maltose (Sarmidi and Barker, 1993a). Sardin et al. (1993) employed batch chromatographic reactors for different esterification reactions such as the esterification of acetic acid with ethanol and the transesterification of methylacetate. Falk and Seidel-Morgenstern (2002) have investigated the hydrolysis of methyl formate. 

Kalbe, J., Hoclcer, H., Berndt, H. Design of enzyme reactors as chromatographic columns for racemic resolution of amino acid esters, Chromatographia, 1989, 28, 193-196. 

Enzymic resolution is also generally useful. At first sight it is of restricted applicability, since most of the classical methods are based on the selectivity of a proteinase for catalysing the hydrolysis of the l enantiomer of an A-acyl derivative of a DL-amino acid (Equation (6.7)) or of a DL-amino acid ester. The normal substrates for these enzymes are derivatives of particular coded amino acids. 

Protease-catalyzed kinetic resolution of N-protected hydrophobic amino acids in SCCO2 was described by Chen et al. (88) as a method for the production of unnatural amino acids. With the alcalase protease from Bacillus licheniformus, carbobenzyloxy-protected racemic amino acid esters... 

Figure A8.10 Enzymatic resolution of D,L-amino acid esters.

Titanium-pillared montmorillonites (Ti-PILC) modified with tartrates were described as heterogeneous Sharpless epoxidation catalysts [33] as well as for the oxidation of aromatic sulfides [34]. Metal oxides modified with histamine showed modest efficiencies for the kinetic resolution of activated amino acid esters (kj /k5 2) [35]. Silica or alumina treated with diethylaluminium chloride and menthol catalyzed the Diels-Alder reaction between cylopentadiene and methacrolein with modest enantioselectivities of up to 31% ee [36]. ZeoHte HY, modified with chiral sulfoxides had remarkable selectivities for the kinetic resolution of 2-butanol (k /kj =39) but unfortunately the catalyst is not very stable... 

Liquid chromatographic resolutions based on highly selective host-guest, metal chelate and charge-transfer com-plexations have been described (1,2). Recently, a chiral diamide-bonded stationary phase (I) has been prepared, which relies entirely on hydrogen bond associations for the material to be resolved. Despite the weak and flexible interaction in this system, direct resolution of enantiomeric N-acyl-fl-amino acid esters (II) was accomplished with the advent of a highly efficient column technology (2- ). 

For characterization and exploitation of the diamide-phase system, a chiral diamide, e,g., (Ill) was examined as a modifier in the mobile phase (solvent) in conjunction with a non-bonded (bare) silica. Such a chiral carrier separated enantiomeric N-acyl-d-amino acid esters and amides with separation factors comparable to those for bonded stationary phase systems. The resolution can be as cribed to diastereomeric complexation through amide-amide hydrogen bonding between the amide additive and enantiomeric solute molecules in the carrier solvent, followed by separation of the diastereomeric complexes by the (achiral) silica phase. This process should be applicable as widely as that involving chiral diamide-bonded stationary phase systems. 

JY Houng, ML Wu, ST Chen. Kinetic resolution of amino acids esters catalyzed by lipases. Chirality 8 418-422,1996. 

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