Hydroxy amino acid

There are 48 structural and cross-linking amino acids concerned with the shape of the protein but over half of the amino adds have functional groups sticking out of the chain—amino, hydroxy, acid groups, and the like. In fact, the enzyme uses only a few of these functional groups in the reaction it catalyses (the hydrolysis of RNA)—probably only two histidines and one lysine—but it is typical of enzymes that they have a vast array of functional groups available for chemical reactions. 

A mild and efficient method for the aminolysis of oxiranes in aprotic solvents using metal ion salts of Li+, Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, and Zn2+ as Lewis acid has been reported <90TL4661). The reaction rates depend, in addition to the nature of the amine and epoxide, also on the type of the metal ion of the catalyst salt. The stereoselectivity observed in these reactions is complete inversion of configuration. Epoxy carboxylic acids are cleanly ring-opened by primary amines at C-2 to provide a-amino-/ -hydroxy acids <92TL2497>. 

This ester, and also 2,3-dibromopropionitrile (obtained from acrylonitrile under similar conditions), exchange their 3-bromine atoms readily for alkoxyl groups, and the resulting a-bromo-/ -alkoxy esters or nitriles are intermediates in the synthesis of oc-amino- -hydroxy acids — in the above cases for serine.81... 

Hydroxyalkylation occurs when certain compounds containing active protons are treated with higher aldehydes e.g., the copper chelate of glycine reacting with aldehydes affords -amino-/ -hydroxy acids 693,694... 

An interesting chiral building block for the synthesis of optically active unusual amino-hydroxy acids is (+)-8-phenylmenthyl isocyanoacetate 1532 [1170]. It is prepared in optically pure form in 95% yield by dehydration of the corresponding formamide with diphosgene within ca. 10 h at room temperature. 

Amino-hydroxy-acids are easily converted into oxazolidine-4- or -5-carboxylic acids or tetrahydro-oxazine-4-carboxylic acids, depending on structure, by reaction with formaldehyde. Scheme 108 illustrates the reaction for threonine the product is isolated as a benzoate. 

Synthesis of Some Phosphorylated Amino-hydroxy-acids and Derived... 

Supplement 1951 1872-1928 Hydroxy-carbonyl amines, 233. Amino-carboxylic acids Anthranilic acid (o-aminobenzoicacid). 310. Amino-hydroxy-carboxylic acids, 577. Amino-sulphonic acids Sulphanilio acid, 695. 

Supplement 1953 3242-3457 Hydroxy-carboxylic acids, 190 In i doxylic acid, 226. Carbonyl-carboxylic acids, 284. i Sulphonic acids, 386 Quinoline sul-phonic acid, 390. Amines, 419 2-Aminopyridine, 428. Amino-carboxylic acids, 541 Tryp- tophane, 545. Hydrazines, 563. Azo. compounds, 572. Diazo compounds, 590. ... 

In this chapter we intend to outline the general methods by which the thiazolic ring is synthetized from open-chain compounds. The conversion of one thiazole compound to another is not discussed here, but in appropriate later chapters. Thus the conversion of thiazole carboxylic acids, halogeno-, amino-, hydroxy-, and mercaptothiazoles, to the corresponding unsubstituted thiazoles is treated in Chapters IV through VII, respectively. 

A variety of a-amino acid derivatives, including the acids themselves, haUdes, esters, and amides can be transformed iato hydantoias by coadeasatioa with urea (67). a-Hydroxy acids and thek nitriles give a similar reaction (68) ... 

The outstanding chemical property of cyanohydrins is the ready conversion to a-hydroxy acids and derivatives, especially a-amino and a,P-unsaturated acids. Because cyanohydrins are primarily used as chemical intermediates, data on production and prices are not usually pubUshed. The industrial significance of cyanohydrins is waning as more direct and efficient routes to the desired products are developed. Acetone cyanohydrin is the world s most prominent industrial cyanohydrin because it offers the main route to methyl methacrylate manufacture. 

Cyanohydrin Synthesis. Another synthetically useful enzyme that catalyzes carbon—carbon bond formation is oxynitnlase (EC 4.1.2.10). This enzyme catalyzes the addition of cyanides to various aldehydes that may come either in the form of hydrogen cyanide or acetone cyanohydrin (152—158) (Fig. 7). The reaction constitutes a convenient route for the preparation of a-hydroxy acids and P-amino alcohols. Acetone cyanohydrin [75-86-5] can also be used as the cyanide carrier, and is considered to be superior since it does not involve hazardous gaseous HCN and also virtually eliminates the spontaneous nonenzymatic reaction. (R)-oxynitrilase accepts aromatic (97a,b), straight- (97c,e), and branched-chain aUphatic aldehydes, converting them to (R)-cyanohydrins in very good yields and high enantiomeric purity (Table 10). 

Isothiazoles with electron-releasing substituents such as amino, hydroxy, or alkoxy in the 3- or 5-position are brominated in high yield in the 4-position. Alkylisothiazoles give lower yields, but 3-methylisothiazole-5-carboxylic acid has been brominated in 76% yield (72AHC(14)1). Again, thiazoles with an electron-releasing substituent in the 2- or 4-position are brominated at the 5-position (79HC(34-1)5). 

The use of carbohydrates as SM s has greatly expanded in recent years, and many cases have been summarized in a text by Hanessian.33 Several examples of such syntheses are indicated in Chart 15. Other commercially available chiral molecules such as a-amino acids or a-hydroxy acids have also been applied widely to the synthesis of chiral targets as illustrated by the last two cases in Chart 15. 

The NAD- and NADP-dependent dehydrogenases catalyze at least six different types of reactions simple hydride transfer, deamination of an amino acid to form an a-keto acid, oxidation of /3-hydroxy acids followed by decarboxylation of the /3-keto acid intermediate, oxidation of aldehydes, reduction of isolated double bonds, and the oxidation of carbon-nitrogen bonds (as with dihydrofolate reductase). 

The stereoselective synthesis ofruin -fi-amino-ct-hydroxy acid derivadves using nucleophilic epoxidadon of Tarydthio-Tnitroalkenes has been reported fEq. 4.411." ... 

Metal ion complexes. These classic CSPs were developed independently by Davankov and Bernauer in the late 1960s. In a typical implementation, copper (II) is complexed with L-proline moieties bound to the surface of a porous polymer support such as a Merrifield resin [28-30]. They only separate well a limited number of racemates such as amino acids, amino alcohols, and hydroxy acids. 

In y-alkoxyfuranones the acetal functionality is ideally suited for the introduction of a chiral auxiliary simultaneously high 71-face selectivity may be obtained due to the relatively rigid structure that is present. With ( + )- or (—(-menthol as auxiliaries it is possible to obtain both (5S)- or (5/ )-y-menthyloxy-2(5//)-furanones in an enantiomerically pure form293. When the auxiliary acts as a bulky substituent, as in the case with the 1-menthyloxy group, the addition of enolates occurs trans to the y-alkoxy substituent. The chiral auxiliary is readily removed by hydrolysis and various optically active lactones, protected amino acids and hydroxy acids are accessible in this way294-29s-400. 

The use of enantiomerically pure (R)-5-menthyloxy-2(5.//)-furanone results in lactone enolates, after the initial Michael addition, which can be quenched diastereoselectively trans with respect to the /J-substituent. With aldehydes as electrophiles adducts with four new stereogenic centers arc formed with full stereocontrol and the products are enantiomerically pure. Various optically active lactones, and after hydrolysis, amino acids and hydroxy acids can be synthesized in this way317. 

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