Arylation amino acids

Barton and coworkers have explored the arylation of various nucleophiles including nitroalkanes using bismuth reagents.105 Reaction of 2-nitropropane with triphenylbismuth carbonate gives 2-nitro-2-phenylpropane in 80% yield.106 Recently, this arylation has been used for the synthesis of unusual amino acids. Arylation of a-nitro esters with triphenylbismuth dichloride followed by reduction gives unique a-amino acids (Eq. 5.68).107... 

Bomer, V., Fei, Y.J., Hartrodt, B., Ganapathy, V., Leibach, F.H., Neubert, K. and Brandsch, M. (1998) Transport of amino acid aryl amides by the intestinal H + /peptide cotransport system, PEPT1. European Journal of Biochemistry, 255 (3), 698-702. 

Amino-4-aryl-5-acetic acid selenazoles were used by Knott (2l i as intermediates in the preparation of T.2, 4.6-naphthoselenazoles (21. 30, 31). 

Mass spectral fragmentation patterns of alkyl and phenyl hydantoins have been investigated by means of labeling techniques (28—30), and similar studies have also been carried out for thiohydantoins (31,32). In all cases, breakdown of the hydantoin ring occurs by a-ftssion at C-4 with concomitant loss of carbon monoxide and an isocyanate molecule. In the case of aryl derivatives, the ease of formation of Ar—NCO is related to the electronic properties of the aryl ring substituents (33). Mass spectrometry has been used for identification of the phenylthiohydantoin derivatives formed from amino acids during peptide sequence determination by the Edman method (34). 

R = alkyl, aryl, benzyl, amino acids penicillins R = Et, /-Pr, -Bu, Ph, PhCH2... 

Phenols and phenol ethers can be acylated with y- or S-amino acids in the presence of polyphosphoric acid to form 2-aryl-2d -pyrrolines (11, = 1) or 2-aryl-/l -piperideines (11, n = 2), respectively (13). 

Carbamates can be used as protective groups for amino acids to minimize racem-ization in peptide synthesis. Racemization occurs during the base-catalyzed coupling reaction of an A-protected, carboxyl-activated amino acid and takes place in the intermediate oxazolone that forms readily from an A-acyl-protected amino acid (R = alkyl, aryl) ... 

Amino-4-aryl-selenazole-5-acetic acids were used by Knott for the preparation of naphtho-l, 2, 4,5-selenazoles. " ... 

Partial hydrolysis of a peptide can be carried out either chemically with aqueous acid or enzymatically. Acidic hydrolysis is unselective and leads to a more or less random mixture of small fragments, but enzymatic hydrolysis is quite specific. The enzyme trypsin, for instance, catalyzes hydrolysis of peptides only at the carboxyl side of the basic amino acids arginine and lysine chymotrypsin cleaves only at the carboxyl side of the aryl-substituted amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan. 

Colona and coworkers oxidized a variety of alkyl aryl and heterocyclic sulfides to the sulfoxides using t-butyl hydroperoxide and a catalytic amount of a complex (97) derived from a transition metal and the imines of L-amino acids. Of the metals (M = TiO, Mo02, VO, Cu, Co, Fe), titanium gave the highest e.e. (21%), but molybdenum was the most efficient catalyst. The sulfoxides were accompanied by considerable sulfone125. 

Several alkyl aryl sulfides were electrochemically oxidized into the corresponding chiral sulfoxides using poly(amino acid)-coated electrodes448. Although the levels of enan-tioselection were quite variable, the best result involved t-butyl phenyl sulfoxide which was formed in 93% e.e. on a platinum electrode doubly coated with polypyrrole and poly(L-valine). Cyclodextrin-mediated m-chloroperbenzoic acid oxidation of sulfides proceeds with modest enantioselectivity44b. 

The Rh2(DOSP)4 catalysts (6b) of Davies have proven to be remarkably effective for highly enantioselective cydopropanation reactions of aryl- and vinyl-diazoacetates [2]. The discovery that enantiocontrol could be enhanced when reactions were performed in pentane [35] added advantages that could be attributed to the solvent-directed orientation of chiral attachments of the ligand carboxylates [59]. In addition to the synthesis of (+)-sertraline (1) [6], the uses of this methodology have been extended to the construction of cyclopropane amino acids (Eq. 3) [35], the synthesis of tricyclic systems such as 22 (Eq. 4) [60], and, as an example of tandem cyclopropanation-Cope rearrangement, an efficient asymmetric synthesis of epi-tremulane 23 (Eq. 5) [61]. 

Herbert and Hay reported a bisphenolic monomer, 3,8-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-A-phenyl-1,2-naphthalimide (Table 6.1), as well as its corresponding polyf V-phenyl imido aryl ether sulfone) via transimidization reactions with hydrazine monohydrate, aliphatic amines, and an amino acid.193 These polysulfones with... 

Alkyl A-2-selenazolines, preparation. 259 Amidinium ion, ionic system of, 68 2-Amino-4-aryl-5-acetic acid selenazoles. 

The decarboxylation of the caesium salt of 9-methylanthracene-10-acetic acid occurs at an even lower potential (0.7 V) and affords the dimer as well as the methyl ether (Eq. 40) [342], The low oxidation potentials for the decarboxylation of 54 (0.13 to 0.77 V) [306a] and 55 (—0.17 V) [306b] indicate too, that the initial electron transfer occurs from the amino or aryl group rather than from the carboxylate. 

It was only around 1850 that the first amines were discovered by Wurtz [2], who considered them as alkylated (or arylated) derivatives of NH3. Nowadays, it is well known that the amine function is widespread among biologically important compounds, but mostly it is present in polyfunctional molecules such as amino acids, alkaloids, etc. Simple amines are very rare in nature, with the exception of tri-ethylamine and the trimethylammonium ion which come from the putrefaction of proteins. 

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