Amino acids hydrogenolysis

The blocking and deblocking of carboxyl groups occurs by reactions similar to those described for hydroxyl and amino groups. The most important protected derivatives are /-butyl, benzyl, and methyl esters. These may be cleaved in this order by trifluoroacetic acid, hydrogenolysis, and strong acid or base (J.F.W. McOmie, 1973). 2,2,2-Trihaloethyl esters are cleaved electro-lytically (M.F. Semmelhack, 1972) or by zinc in acetic acid like the Tbeoc- and Tceoc-protected hydroxyl and amino groups. 

Amino Acids. Chloroformates play a most important role for the protection of the amino group of amino acids (qv) during peptide synthesis (32). The protective carbamate formed by the reaction of benzyl chloroformate and amino acid (33) can be cleaved by hydrogenolysis to free the amine after the carboxyl group has reacted further. The selectivity of the amino groups toward chloroformates results in amino-protected amino acids with the other reactive groups unprotected (34,35). Methods for the preparation of protected amino acids on an industrial scale have been developed (36,37). A wide variety of chloroformates have been used that give various carbamates that are stable or cleaved under different conditions. 

The 2,4,6-trimethylbenzyl ester has been prepared from an amino acid and the benzyl chloride (Et3N, DMF, 25°, 12 h, 60-80% yield) it is cleaved by acidic hydrolysis (CF COOH, 25°, 60 min, 60-90% yield 2 N HBr/HOAc, 25°, 60 min, 80-95% yield) and by hydrogenolysis. It is stable to methanolic hydrogen chloride used to remove A-o-nitrophenylsulfenyl groups or triphenylmethyl esters. ... 

Sulfobenzyl esters were prepared (cesium salt or dicyclohexylammonium salt, Na03SC6H4CH2Br, DMF, 37-95% yield) from A -protected amino acids. They are cleaved by hydrogenolysis (H2/Pd), or hydrolysis (NaOH, dioxane/water). Treatment with ammonia-or hydrazine results in formation of the amide or hydrazide. The ester is stable to 2 M HBr/AcOH and to CF3SO3H in CF3CO2H. The relative rates of hydrolysis and hydrazinolysis for different esters are as follows ... 

The first, and still widely used, polymer-supported ester is formed from an amino acid and a chloromethylated copolymer of styrene-divinylbenzene. Originally it was cleaved by basic hydrolysis (2 N NaOH, FtOH, 25°, 1 h). Subsequently, it has been cleaved by hydrogenolysis (H2/Pd-C, DMF, 40°, 60 psi, 24 h, 71% yield), and by HF, which concurrently removes many amine protective groups. Monoesterification of a symmetrical dicarboxylic acid chloride can be effected by reaction with a hydroxymethyl copolymer of styrene-divinylbenzene to give an ester a mono salt of a diacid was converted into a dibenzyl polymer. ... 

In subsequent studies,22 Sheehan et al. demonstrated that the action of diisopropylcarbodiimide on penicilloate 24, prepared by protection of the free primary amino group in 23 with trityl chloride (see Scheme 6b), results in the formation of the desired -lactam 25 in a very respectable yield of 67 %. In this most successful transformation, the competing azlactonization reaction is prevented by the use of a trityl group (Ph3C) to protect the C-6 amino function. Hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ester function in 25, followed by removal of the trityl protecting group with dilute aqueous HC1, furnishes 6-aminopenicillanic acid (26), a versatile intermediate for the synthesis of natural and unnatural penicillins. 

The deprotection of the Cbz protected amino acid proceeds via a two step mechanism (Figure 1). The first step comprises the catalytic hydrogenolysis of the benzyloxy group of the Cbz-protected amino acid (1). Toluene (3) is formed from the O-benzyl group as well as an unstable carbamic acid intermediate (2). This intermediate decomposes to form the unprotected amino acid (4) and carbon dioxide (5). 

Figure 1 Reaction scheme for the hydrogenolysis of a Cbz-protected amino acid.

Next, we investigated the experimental parameters for hydrogenolysis of Cbz-protected amino acids. It is important to carefully select the experimental parameters so that the reactions are not limited by diffusion of hydrogen to the catalytically active sites. The diffusion of hydrogen can be affected by temperature, agitation speed, as well as the number of catalytically active sites... 

The removal of a carbobenzyloxy group can be separated into two steps (Figure 1). The first step comprises the hydrogenolysis of the benzyl oxygen bond of the Cbz-protected amino acid 1 to form a carbamic acid intermediate 2 and toluene 3. The carbamic acid intermediate decaiboxylates to give the deprotected amino acid 4 and one equivalent of carbon dioxide 5. 

In addition to the already known inhibiting effect of N-containing bases on debenzylation reactions we have shown that similar modifiers can increase the rate of hydrogenolysis of a CBz protected amino acid. As these reactions are carried out on industrial scale the addition of certain modifiers can increase the reaction rate, thus leading to shorter reaction times and higher productivity. 

The cleavage of the tricyclic structure such as the product presented in Eq. 8.83 leads to a linear aminopolyhydroxylated structure (Scheme 8.25).135 Two-step unfolding (silyl ether hydroxydesilylation/nitroso acetal hydrogenolysis) can be useful in the preparation of hydroxy-lated amino acids (Eq. 8.84). 

In the search of new methodologies for the asymmetric synthesis of nonproteinogenic amino acids, 8-methyl-4,8a-diphenyltetrahydro-17/-pyrrolo[2.1 -r l, 4 oxazinc-l, 6(7//)-dionc 62, obtained as described in Scheme 24 (Section 11.11.7.3), was selectively reduced at the lactam carbonyl with BH3 and further opened by hydrogenolysis to give syn-disubstituted proline derivative 64 in 95% yield <1997SL935> (Scheme 6). It is noteworthy that hydrogenolysis did not affect the benzylic position of bicyclic compound 63. 

The next residues were attached successively by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-mediated coupling of Boc-amino acids with the free amino groups. The use of excess Boc-amino acid eliminated the need for capping after coupling. The last Boc-group and the benzyl-based side chain and carboxy-terminal protectors were removed at the end of the synthesis by acidolysis with hydrogen bromide in trifluoroacetic acid the latter was used instead of acetic acid to avoid acetylation of hydroxymethyl side chains (see Section 6.6). Catalytic hydrogenolysis of the peptide removed the nitro... 

This method is a modification of that developed by Vollmar and Dunn. Glycine l-butyl ester also has been prepared by the acid-catalyzed addition of iV-benzyloxycarbonylglycine to isobutene, followed by catalytic hydrogenolysis of the resulting N-benzyloxycarbonylglycine 1-butyl ester. The esters of other amino acids have beeii prepared directly by the isobutene method. ... 

Besides the large number of a-amino acids found in nature, )3-amino acids are gaining an ever increasing attention [100]. Amino acids are e.g. found in the side chain of the cancerostatic taxol [101] as well as the new antibiotics sperabillin and TAN 1057 A/B [102]. The simple deprotection of 2 -substituted cyclopropylacetic acid derivatives 196-R by hydrogenolysis (and hydrolysis for the methyl esters 196b,i,j,m-Me) yielded enantiomerically pure 2-(r-amino-cyclopropyl)acetic acids (Scheme 59) [10]. 

Condensation of benzyl glycinate -toluenesulfonate salt with 4,5-diphenyl-1,3-dioxol-2-one affords 154, which can be converted to the 4,5-diphenyl-3-substituted-2(3//)-oxazolones 155 by sequential treatment with an aldehyde/LiHMDS followed by diaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST). Hydrogenolysis then affords the p-fluoro-a-amino acids 156 in excellent yields without any concomitant cleavage of the... 

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