Amino acids containing 5- aryl-, preparation

The use of alkenyl boronic acid derivatives 50, which are readily prepared via hydroboration or bromoboration of alkynes, affords the corresponding p,y-unsaturated amino acids (e.g. 52-57) in a geometrically pure form [34], A variety of amines 48, including primary and secondary amines, anilines, amino alcohols and hydroxylamines can effectively participate in this process, while the alkenyl boronic acid can contain alkyl, aryl or bromo-substituents. Although the alkenyl amino acid side chain is introduced through the boronic acid component, the use of more substituted a-keto acids 49 allows the simultaneous incorporation of an additional a-substituent (e.g. 57). 

In the laboratory of R. Bihovsky, a series of peptide mimetic aldehyde inhibitors of calpain I was prepared in which the P2 and P3 amino acids were replaced with substituted 3,4-dihydro-1,2-benzothiazine-3-carboxylate-1,1-dioxides. The synthesis began with the diazotization of the substituted aniline substrate using sodium nitrite and hydrochloric acid. The aqueous solution of the corresponding diazonium chloride product was added dropwise to the solution of acrylonitrile in a water-acetone mixture, which contained catalytic amounts of copper(ll) chloride. This Meerwein arylation step afforded the chloronitrile derivative, which was subjected to sulfonation with chlorosulfonic acid, and the resulting sulfonyl chloride was treated with the solution of ammonia in dioxane to give the desired 3,4-dihydro-1,2-benzothiazine-2-carboxamide. 

The concept of intramolecular alkylation of AT-substituted amino acid derivatives via 1,5-diradicals also turned out to be an excellent system for studying the different stereochemical course of spinisomers as discussed in Section 6.2.2. Thus, the a-ketoester 9, which contains an alanine moiety, was prepared. In contrast to aryl ketones, a-ketoesters are not completely converted into the triplet state after photochemical excitation. Upon addition of either a triplet quencher (naphthalene) or a triplet sensitizer (benzophenone), each of the two spin states may be forced (Scheme 3, Table 1). The chiral center at the d-position with respect to the keto carbonyl group raises the question whether a memory effect of chirality may be observed during the cyclization. The results summarized in Table 1 amply demonstrate the specific properties of spinisomeric biradicals. In the presence of naphthalene, which probably acts not only as a triplet quencher but also as a singlet sensitizer, the chiral information of the reactant 9 is almost entirely conserved in the helical diradical 10 because of its very short lifetime. In contrast, the addition of benzophenone results in almost complete racemization, and also the cis/trans selectivity is... 

In another notable application of the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of nitrogen-containing organozincs, reagents derived from amino acids react with aryl halides in DMF using P(o-Tol)3, tris(ortho-tolyl)phosphine as ligand (Scheme 4.81) [5]. The approach is equally weU suited for the preparation of arylated a-amino acids [255, 256] such as 358 or fS-amino acids [257]. The use of PtBUj affords better results for the synthesis of proHno-homotryptophane derivatives [258]. 

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