Esters carboxylic acid protection-deprotection

In general, the methods for protection and deprotection of carboxylic acids and esters are not as convenient as for alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones. It is therefore common to carry potential carboxylic acids through synthetic schemes in the form of protected primary alcohols or aldehydes. The carboxylic acid can then be formed at a late stage in the synthesis by an appropriate oxidation. This strategy allows one to utilize the wider variety of alcohol and aldehyde protective groups indirectly for carboxylic acid protection. 

Another method for deallylation of ally esters is the transfer of the allyl group to reactive nucleophiles. Amines such as morpholine are used[415-417], Potassium salts of higher carboxylic acids are used as an accepter of the allyl group[418]. The method is applied to the protection and deprotection of the acid function in rather unstable /f-lactam 664[419,420]. 

Two new sections on the protection of phosphates and the alkyne-CH are included. All other sections of the book have been expanded, some more than others. The section on the protection of alcohols has increased substantially, reflecting the trend of the nineties to synthesize acetate- and propionate-derived natural products. An effort was made to include many more enzymatic methods of protection and deprotection. Most of these are associated with the protection of alcohols as esters and the protection of carboxylic acids. Here we have not attempted to be exhaustive, but hopefully, a sufficient number of cases are provided that illustrate the true power of this technology, so that the reader will examine some of the excellent monographs and review articles cited in the references. The Reactivity Charts in Chapter 10 are identical to those in the first edition. The chart number appears beside the name of each protective group when it is first introduced. No attempt was made to update these Charts, not only because of the sheer magnitude of the task, but because it is nearly impossible in... 

Silyl-derived linker 36 was prepared in three steps from a silyl ether of serine and incorporated for Fmoc/tBu-based assembly of protected gly-copeptide blocks (Scheme 11) [42]. The a-carboxylic acid function of serine was protected as an allyl ester. Deprotection by a Pd(0) catalyst in the presence of dimedone liberated the carboxylic acid in order for subsequent... 

Synthesis of isomeric chiral protected (63 )-6-amino-hexahydro-2,7-dioxopyrazolo[l,2- ]pyrazole-l-carboxylic acid 280 is shown in Scheme 36. Crude vinyl phosphonate 275, obtained by treatment of diethyl allyloxycarbonylmethyl-phosphonate with acetic anhydride and tetramethyl diaminomethane as a formaldehyde equivalent, was used in the Michael addition to chiral 4-(f-butoxycarbonylamino)pyrazolidin-3-one 272. The Michael addition is run in dichloro-methane followed by addition of f-butyl oxalyl chloride and 2 equiv of Huning s base in the same pot to provide 276 in 58% yield. The allyl ester is deprotected using palladium catalysis to give the corresponding acid 277, which is... 

Chiral 2,2-disubstituted cyclobutanones have been obtained by asymmetric rearrangement of chiral sulfinyl- 177,178 and sulfanylcyclopropanes.179 Using readily available cyclopropyl 4-tolyl (/ )-sulfoxide (l),180 the requisite sulfinylcyclopropanes 3 and 3 were obtained by a sequence of lithiation, reaction with carboxylic acid esters and stereoselective addition of Grignard reagents to the ketones 2 thus formed.178 The corresponding sulfanylcyclopropanes 4 and 4 resulted from a sequence of protection, reduction and deprotection.179... 

Most of these procedures are incompatible with common linkers, and are therefore unsuitable for the transformation of support-bound substrates into carboxylic acids. A more versatile approach for this purpose is the saponification of carboxylic esters. Saponifications with KOH or NaOH usually proceed smoothly on hydrophilic supports, such as Tentagel [19] or polyacrylamides, but not on cross-linked polystyrene. Esters linked to hydrophobic supports are more conveniently saponified with LiOH [45] or KOSiMe3 in THF or dioxane (Table 13.11). Alternatively, palladium(O)-mediated saponification of allyl esters [94] can be used to prepare acids on cross-linked polystyrene (Entries 9 and 10, Table 13.11). Fmoc-protected amines are not deprotected under these conditions [160],... 

Carboxy terminal amino acid or peptide thiols are prepared from various p-amino alcohols by conversion into a thioacetate (R2NHCHR1CH2SAc) via a tosylate followed by saponification.Several methods have been used to prepare N-terminal peptide thiols, the most common procedure is the coupling of (acetylsulfanyl)- or (benzoylsulfanyl)alkanoic acids or add chlorides with a-amino esters or peptide esters, followed by deprotection of the sulfanyl and carboxy groups. 8 16 Other synthetic methods include deprotection of (trit-ylsulfanyl)alkanoyl peptides, 1718 alkaline treatment of the thiolactones from protected a-sulfanyl acids, 19 and preparation of P-sulfanylamides (HSCH2CHR1NHCOR2, retro-thior-phan derivatives) from N-protected amino acids by reaction of P-amine disulfides with carboxylic acid derivatives, followed by reduction. 20,21 In many cases, the amino acid or peptide thiols are synthesized as the disulfides and reduced to the corresponding thiols by the addition of dithiothreitol prior to use. 

It is possible to oxidize alcohols in the presence of free carboxylic acids.206 Nevertheless, sometimes better results are obtained if the acid is protected, for example by methylation.207 Sometimes, free carboxylic acids have a low solubility in cold CH2C12. In such cases, an in situ protection with the silylating agent, bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide (BSA) normally allows the solubilization of the acid as trimethylsilyl ester, and an easy Swern oxidation. The resulting silylated acid is easily deprotected during the work-up.208... 

Protection of—COOH.1 Trimethylsilyl esters are useful for temporary protection of carboxylic acid groups during hydroboration of an unsaturated acid. The silyl esters need not be isolated and deprotection occurs spontaneously during the oxidation or iodination step. 

The methodology was successfully extended to a one-pot total synthesis of complex heterocyclic systems such as pyrazino [2,1-b] quinazolines 79, encountered in nature as alkaloids 80-82 (Scheme 50) [125]. To assemble the pyrazino[2,l-fo]quinazoline core, N-Boc protected amino acid 76 was employed instead of carboxylic acid 72 (Scheme 49) in the synthesis of the corresponding intermediate benzoxazinones 77. The subsequent reaction with an amine moiety of another amino acid ester 78 was accompanied by concomitant cleavage of the N-Boc protecting group and diketopiperazine-like cyclization (for the one-pot deprotection-cyclization reaction of N-Boc dipeptide esters to afford 2,5-piperazinedione under microwave dielectric heating, see [128]) to afford the target heterocycle 79. Hence, the total... 

Thus, according to Scheme 28, (-)-shikimic acid 169 was converted to cyclohexadiene derivative 170 via esterification of carboxyl group, protection of the m-disposed hydroxyls, and elimination of the remaining carbinol moiety. Catalytic dihydroxylation of 170 gave unsaturated esters 171 and 172 as a separable 1 1 mixture. The 5,5a-unsaturated isomer 171 was finally elaborated into the desired (-)-MK7607 (174) via simple protection-reduction-deprotection sequence. 

Other esters are sometimes used to protect carboxylic acids, especially when there is a desire to deprotect the acid by using different conditions from those available for methyl esters. Benzyl esters are prepared in the usual manner but can be cleaved by reaction with hydrogen and a catalyst. Again it is the benzylic carbon-oxygen bond that is broken in the hydrogenolysis reaction ... 

The /-butyl ester is often prepared by acid-catalyzed addition of the carboxylic acid to isobutylene. The overall protection-deprotection sequence is outlined in the following equation. Note that the /-butyl group is removed in the last step without destroying the phosphorus ester or the amide or benzyl ester groups. 

The synthesis of the oxazole compound 45 starts with the coupling of the N-protected (/ )-methylcysteine compound 18 with threonine terf-butyl ester using bis(2-oxo-3-oxazolidi-nyl)phosphinyl chloride (BOP-Cl) [15] as a coupling reagent. Jones oxidation of the threonine hydroxy group leads to the ketoamide 44. The desired oxazole ring is closed by treatment with thionylchloride/pyridine. After deprotection, the oxazole, compound 45 is obtained. In the next step the oxazole compound 45 is coupled with the tris(thiazoline) compound 43 to yield the thioester 46. Now Fukuyama closes the fourth and last thiazoline ring (46 47). After conversion of the carboxylic acid function into a methyl-... 

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