Benzyl derivatives esters, deprotection

Solutions of triethylamine (Et3N) 14 (1.0M), premixed carboxylic acid/alkyl chloroformate (1.0 M respectively), and 4-dimethylaminopyri-dine 15 (0.5 M) in MeCN were introduced into the reactor from separate inlets and the reaction products collected at the outlet in MeCN, prior to analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Under optimized reaction conditions, the authors were able to synthesize the methyl 16, ethyl 17, and benzyl 18 esters in quantitative conversion, with no anhydride or deprotection by-products detected (as observed in conventional batch reactions). In addition to the Boc-glycine derivatives illustrated in Scheme 4, the authors also esterified a series of aromatic carboxylic acids with yields ranging from 91 to 100%, depending on the additional functional groups present. 

Benzylic oxidation of alkoxybenzyl ethers is particularly facile, and since some of the more activated derivatives are cleaved under conditions which leave benzyl, various ester, and formyl groups unaffected, they have found application in the protection of primary and secondary alcohols. Deprotection with DDQ in dichloromethane/water follows the order 3,4-dimethoxy > 4-methoxy > 3,5-dimethoxy > benzyl and secondary > primary, thus allowing the selective removal of one function in the presence of another. 2,6-Dimethoxybenzyl esters are readily cleaved to the corresponding acids on treatment with DDQ in wet dichloromethane at rt, whereas 4-methoxybenzyl esters are stable under these conditions. Oxidative cleavage of N-linked 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl derivatives with DDQ has also been demonstrated. ... 

A similar series of reactions was performed by Paulsen and Hdlck141 for the preparation of the T-antigenic, unprotected, amino acid-disaccha-rides 200 and 201, starting from the 4,6-0-benzylidene-N-(benzyloxy-carbonyl) benzyl esters 198 and 199, respectively, by condensation with 110 in the presence of mercury dicyanide-mercury dichloride and molecular sieves 4A, and deprotection of the product. Sinay and co-workers148 also reported the synthesis of hexa-O-acetyl derivatives of 200 and 201 by application of the sequence of azido-nitration-bromination. 

Scheme 3) [30]. The pY + 3 diversity alcohols (Ri)-OI I (Fig. 15) were attached to the template through a Mitsunobu coupling to provide ether derivatives of 16. Palladium-mediated Alloc deprotection followed by amide formation using the phosphate-ester-containing diversity acids (R2)-C02H provided the fully coupled resin-bound products of 17. Cleavage from the resin with 95% TFA/H20, which also afforded benzyl phosphate deprotection, followed by reversed-phase (RP) semipreparative... 

Kenne and associates (57) have applied this procedure for the synthesis of a-D-mannopyranosyl derivatives linked to L-serine/L-threonine (59 and 60). Compounds 59 and 60 were obtained by coupling 2,3,4,6-tetra-<9-acetyl-D-mannopyranosyl chloride (56) with Fmoc-L-serine benzyl ester or Fmoc-L-threonine benzyl ester in the presence of silver triflate and 4-A molecular sieves, followed by deprotection (57). 

Paulsen and associates (58) synthesized mono- and di-D-galactopyranosyl derivatives of L-serine/L-threonine. Condensation of the 2-azido-2-deoxy-glycosyl halides 61 and 62 with the benzyl or tert-butyl esters of iV-benzyl-oxycarbonyl (Z)-protected L-serine, L-threonine, and L-leucyl-L-serine (63 -65) in the presence of silver carbonate, silver perchlorate, Drierite, and molecular sieves gave (59) the corresponding O-glycopeptides 67-69. The free glycopeptides were obtained after total deprotection. 

Recently, a total synthesis of salmochelin SX (70) has been reported which used cross-coupling of acetobromo-a-D-glucose 96 with arylzinc derivative 97 to furnish 98, followed by full deacylation and perbenzylation to give 99. Subsequent saponification of the methyl/benzyl ester, formation of the acid chloride, and addition of a protected L-serine unit yielded 100. Final deprotection formed the glucosyl-DHB-serine 70 in 28% overall yield (Fig. 17) [121]. This strategy involved the stepwise addition of the aryl moiety and serine (76a) to the sugar portion, which is in the opposite order to the biosynthetic rationale. 

The amino group of the A-benzyloxycarbonyl derivative is protected as the amide half of a carbamate ester (a urethane, Section 21-16), which is more easily hydrolyzed than most other amides. In addition, the ester half of this urethane is a benzyl ester that undergoes hydrogenolysis. Catalytic hydrogenolysis of the A-benzyloxy carbonyl amino acid gives an unstable carbamic acid that quickly decarboxylates to give the deprotected amino acid. 

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