Amino acids pyridine substituted

The combined liquors, which comprise an aqueous hydrochloric acid solution of 3-amino-methyl-pyridine hydrochloride, are then heated to a temperature of 60° to 65°C, and ethyl nitrite gas is passed into the heated solution. The ethyl nitrite is generated by placing 20 liters of 90% ethyl alcohol in a suitable vessel, diluting with 200 liters of water, and, while stirring, adding to the dilute alcohol 18.3 kg of nitrosyl chloride at the rate of 2.25 kg per hour. (The process using methyl nitrite is carried out by substituting a stoichiometrically equivalent quantity of methyl alcohol for the ethyl alcohol.)... 

The mechanism involves the initial formation of a substituted urea followed by ring closure to form the thiohydantoin. The amino acid is dissolved in 60% aqueous pyridine containing the phenylisothiocyanate... 

When an a-amino acid is treated with an anhydride in the presence of pyridine, the carboxyl group is replaced by an acyl group and the NH2 becomes acylated. This is called the Dakin-West reaction The mechanism involves formation of an oxazolone. The reaction sometimes takes place on carboxylic acids even when an amino group is not present. A number of N-substituted amino acids, RCH-(NHR )COOH, give the corresponding N-alkylated products. 

Many synthetic applications of Rh-catalyzed hydrogenation of a-dehydroamino acid derivatives have recently been explored (Scheme 26.2). Takahashi has reported a one-pot sequential enantioseiective hydrogenation utilizing a BINAP-Rh and a BINAP-Ru catalyst to synthesize 4-amino-3-hydroxy-5-phenylpentanoic acids in over 95% ee. The process involves a first step in which the dehydroami-no acid unit is hydrogenated with the BINAP-Rh catalyst, followed by hydrogenation of the / -keto ester unit with the BINAP-Ru catalyst [87]. A hindered pyridine substituted a-dehydroamino acid derivative has been hydrogenated by a... 

Another quite common reaction involving nucleophilic attack at a carbon atom of the ring is the hydrolysis of hexahydro-oxazolo[3,4- ]pyridines and tetrahydro-oxazolo[3,4-tf]pyridin-l-ones. This reaction has been known for years and is best performed under acidic conditions, respectively, producing 2-hydroxymethyl-piperidines or pipe-colic acid derivatives in good yields representative examples are collected in Table 9. Ammoniolysis of tetrahydro-oxazolo[3,4-tf]pyridin-l -ones with amino acid derivatives has also been reported and produces substituted pipecolic acid amides in good yields <2003H(61)259>. 

A chemical reaction in which the carboxyl group of an a-amino acid is replaced by an acyl group Le., an acyl-decarboxylation). In this reaction, an a-amino acid is reacted with an anhydride in the presence of pyridine and the resulting product is an A-acylated ketone. In certain instances, A-substituted amino acids will also act as reactants. 

Many of the simple heterocycles occur naturally within human biochemistry. For example, the amino acids proline, histidine, and tryptophan contain, respectively, a pyrrolidine, an imidazole, and an indole ring. The nucleic acids contain purine and pyrimidine rings. Vitamins are heterocyclic compounds vitamin Bg (8.8) is a substituted pyridine vitamin Bj (8.9) contains a pyrimidine ring. Simple heterocycles are therefore important to human biochemistry and thus to drug design. 

Complexes of pyridine-2-carboxylic acid (picolinic acid, picH) and its substituted derivatives commonly exhibit the N—O bidentate nature of this aromatic amino acid. From aqueous solutions chelates are obtained with the coordinated carboxylic group deprotonated, or neutral ligand forms may be isolated from non-aqueous media.26 Bis chelates are common in either case with bivalent metal ions. The tris chelates of trivalent cobalt27 and manganese28 have been structurally characterized recently. The latter is tetragonally distorted in a structure similar to Mnin(oxine)3. 

E. C. C. Baly and co-workers 2 showed that soln. of nitrates and carbonic acid are respectively converted into nitrite and formaldehyde in ultra-violet light, and these products then react to form formhydroxamic acid this acid then combines with more photosynthesized formaldehyde to give a variety of products —e.g. glyoxaline, free and substituted a-amino-acids, and substances of an alkaloidal nature. Methylamine and pyridine are produced by the action of... 

Finally, the remarkably simple solution came from Evans et al. [21a] and researchers of DuPont [21b] simultaneously. Their method allows the coupling of structurally and electronically diverse phenols and aryl boronic acids in the presence of copper]11) acetate, trie-thylamine or pyridine, and molecular sieves at ambient temperature (Scheme 5). Even phenolic amino acid derivatives react smoothly without racemization. The only limitation has been observed when using orfho-heteroatom substituted boronic acids which resulted in lower product yields. The initial step in the proposed pathway (Scheme 6) is the trans-metallation of the boronic acid residue with the copper salt. 

Specialized diazo transfer reactions have also been reported (Scheme 33 and Equation (18)), but their preparative value is limited. For example, JV-ethylbenzothiazolium azide (164) and 2,6-diaminopyridine affords 5-aminotriazolo[4,5-Z>]pyridine (5p) <78HCA108>. Since the reaction is sensitive to the pKa of the aminoheterocycles employed, the process has limited applicability. The highly specific colorimetric assay for oj-amino acids, which is based on a reaction with quinoline-3-diazonium tetrafluoroborate (166), affords l-substituted-[l,2,3]triazolo[4,5-c]quinolines (167)... 

Another interesting switch consisted in the progressive passage from desmethyl-minaprine 6 to the bioisosteric thiadiazole 7 (Fig. 1.19), and then to the bioisos-teric thiazoles. Tri-substitution on the phenyl ring and replacement of the aliphatic morpholine by a pyridine led to compound 8 which exhibited some affinity for the receptor of the 41 amino-acid neuropeptide CRF. Further optimization led to nanomolar CRF antagonists such as 9 [41,42]. 

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