Benzyl derivatives esterification

In studies directed towards the synthesis of pseurotin A, the unsaturated acetal 3 has been used as a common starting material to prepare two different C-2-branched intermediates. In one route, 3 was 0-benzylated, the aldehyde im-masked with hydrochloric acid and oxidized to its carboxylic acid derivative. Esterification, dihydroxylation of the alkene then dimethylsulfoxide-thionyl chloride oxidation, addition of ethylmagnesium chloride and removal of the isopropylidene group gave compounds 4. In an alternative route, 3 was first epoxidized then treated sequentially with hydroxide, benzyl bromide-base and hydrochloric acid to give compounds 5. ... 

Subsequently, this mode of synthesis was extended to the preparation of similar derivatives.22-29 For example, the groups of Tsukamoto,25 Hough,26 and Yoshimura28 reported the synthesis of 2-acetamido-N-(L-aspart-l-oyl)-2-deoxy-/ -D-glycopyranosylamine (13) by coupling 8 with 4-benzyl N-(benzyloxycarbonyl)-L-aspartate30 (12) in the presence of DCC, followed by O-deacetylation, de-esterification, and hydrogeno-... 

Bisacid 91 was used toward three different targets. For the first, a palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative Heck reaction followed by perylenequinone formation provided bis-styryl derivative 92 (Scheme 7.22) [52]. For the second, the C5,C5 -benzyl ethers were cleaved, and the more acidic carboxylic acids were then selectively benzylated using BnBr and K2CO3 (Scheme 7.22). This re-esterification... 

Most of the glycoside derivatives were synthesized using a combination of esterification and benzylation reactions. Some required only a few steps, whereas others were more cumbersome. For synthesis of the 4,6-0-benzylidene-3-0-benzoyl glucoside 10, it was known that compound 25 was easily produced by one step benzylidenelation in light of Scheme 3. Starting from compound 25, the glucoside 10 was then conveniently obtained by benzoylation (Scheme 4). 

The synthetic approach used in this work is shown in Scheme 9. Two known solution pathways were used to convert shikimic acid to an epoxide intermediate. In fact, both the (-)35 and the (+)36 enantiomers were formed. After minor synthetic transformations, these epoxides were linked to Ten-tagel S aminomethyl resin with an o-nitrophenyl-derived photocleavable linker 7437 via amide bond formation to give intermediate 75. The first point of variation was added via various iodo-benzyl nitrone carboxylic acids 76 via 1,3-dipolar addition/esterification reactions. Highly constrained resin-bound tetracyclic hydrooxazoles 77 were thereby produced. 

Functional group protection. The NH— group in proline is protected by acylation in the usual Schotten-Baumann manner with benzyl chloroformate to yield the benzyloxycarbonyl derivative (42). Correspondingly the —C02H group in glycine is protected by esterification in ethanol to form the ethyl ester, obtained as the hydrochloride (43) under Fischer-Speier conditions. 

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