Glycinate esters

In a 3-I. round-bottomed flask are placed 500 cc. (400 g., 8.7 moles) of absolute alcohol which has been saturated in the cold with hydrochloric acid gas (Note i), 870 cc. (6S0 g., 20 moles) of 96 per cent alcohol (Note 2) and 70 g. (1.03 moles) of methyleneaminoacetonitrile (Note 3). This mixture is refluxed on a steam bath for three hours (Note 4). During the refluxing, ammonium chloride separates. After the reaction is complete, the hot alcohol solution is filtered with suction and the filtrate cooled, thus allowing the glycine ester hydrochloride to separate out in fine white needles. The product is filtered with suction, sucked as dry as possible on the filter, and then allowed to dry in the air. The yield is about no g. The alcohol from the filtrate is distilled (Note 5) until about one-third of its volume is left and again cooled and a second crop of crystals is obtained. The total yield of product, m.p. 142-143, varies from 125 to 129 g. (89-91 per cent of the theoretical amount). If a very pure product is desired, it may be recrystallized from absolute alcohol. 

Care must be taken that no water gets into the alcohol, as glycine ester hydrochloride is quite soluble in water. Concentration of the filtrate on the steam bath should not be carried out in an open vessel because the solution will take up moisture and the product will not crystallize. 

The substance represented by formula (IV), viz., 4-hydroxy-3-allyl-3 4-dihydroqviinazoline, m.p. 130°, was synthesised by Reynolds and Robinson, and proved to be different from vasicine. Spath and Kuffner established the identity of the degradation product (V), upon which formula (IV) for vasicine was chiefly based by synthesis from isatoic anhydride, which, on treatment with glycine ester hydrochloride and sodium meth-oxide, gave the substituted Wppuric acid (VI), and this, on heating with... 

A family of interesting polycychc systems 106 related to pyrrolidines was obtained in a one-pot double intermolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, irradiating derivatives of o-allyl-sahcylaldehydes with microwaves in toluene for 10 min in presence of the TEA salt of glycine esters [71]. A very similar approach was previously proposed by Bashiardes and co-workers to obtain a one-pot multicomponent synthesis of benzopyrano-pyrrolidines 107 and pyrrole products 108 (Scheme 37). The latter cycloadducts were obtained when o-propargylic benzaldehydes were utihzed instead of o-allyhc benzalde-hydes, followed by in situ oxidation [72]. 

In contrast, when excess amounts of the HHTs derived from simple aliphatic glycinate esters, such as 25, were used in excess in reactions with diaryl phosphites (SO), the related glyphosate aminals containing aryl phosphonate esters 46 were isolated in low yield (5-15%). Like many aminals, these triesters 46 were acid-sensitive and were quantitatively converted to the corresponding triester strong acid salts 47 upon treatment with either HCl or methanesulf onic acid (27). 

An azapeptide was also synthesized from a pyrazolide of an AT-activated glycine ester [42]... 

Aminoacetal has been prepared by the action of ammonia on haloacetals,8 4 6 6 7-8 9 by the reduction of nitroacetal using sodium in boiling alcohol,10 and by the reduction of glycine ester hydrochloride with sodium amalgam.11... 

If allenes bear a potential leaving group in the a-position to the cumulene system, they are very attractive substrates for palladium-catalyzed substitutions. Examples are a-allenic acetates and particularly a-allenic phosphates, which react under palladium(O) catalysis with carbanions derived from /3-diesters, /i-keto esters, a-phenylsulfonyl esters and glycine ester derivatives. They lead to /3-functionalized allenes such as 86, 89 and 93 (Eqs. 14.9-14.11) [45 18]. 

The reaction of propylamine derivatives (30) with EMME gave amino-methylenemalonates (31) in 80-84% yields (82MI7). Aminomethylene-malonates (32) were prepared in the exothermic reaction of glycine esters and EMME (77H1821). 

The activation under physiological conditions of a variety of other amino acyl esters of metronidazole was investigated the results presented in Table 8.9 are discussed here and in Sect. 8.5.5.2 [137]. This series contains the glycine ester, various V-substituted glycinates, two esters of /3-alanine and one of 4-aminobutyric acid. The glycine ester and its V-substituted analogues of relevance here were hydrolyzed relatively rapidly in plasma, the exception being the piperazinyl derivative discussed below. 

Diazo esters can also be prepared from glycine esters by treatment with nitrous acid [966] or with alkyl nitrites. Further methods include the oxidation of hydrazones, oximes (Forster reaction), and semicarbazones, the base-induced... 

Compounds of the general formula 69 are prepared by cycloaddition of N-methyl- or A(-arylmaleimides with arylidene imines of AAs and in the presence of an aromatic aldehyde. Stabilized azomethine ylides are formed as intermediates, which then afford the cycloadducts. Several isomers are formed, and the influence of various metal salts and solvents was investigated (87BCJ4067 88T557). Similar transformations have been performed with A-ailyl glycine esters (91TL1359). 

The 2,2 -bisindole (1384), required for the synthesis of staurosporinone (293) and the protected aglycon 1381, was prepared by a double Madelung cyclization as reported by Bergman. For the synthesis of the diazolactams 1382 and 1383, the glycine esters 1385 and 1386 were transformed to the lactams 1389 and 1390 by DCC/DMAP-promoted coupling with monoethyl malonate, followed by Dieckmann cyclization. The lactams 1389 and 1390 were heated in wet acetonitrile, and then treated with mesyl azide (MsNs) and triethylamine, to afford the diazolactams 1382 and 1383. This one-pot process involves decarboethoxylation and a diazo transfer reaction (Scheme 5.234). 

Lipo-amino acid derivatives are readily obtained in good yields by direct alkylation of amino acids esters with the related alkyl halides, e.g. farnesyl bromide, under careful control of the reaction conditions to avoid exhaustive alkylation of the amino group. 128 Alternatively, peptoid chemistry is applied for N-alkylation of glycine ester via reaction of alkyl amines, e.g. hexadecylamine, with ethyl bromoacetate. 36,98 ... 

Schiff s base formation occurs by condensation of the free amine base with aldehyde A in EtOAc/MeOff. The free amine base solution of glycine methyl ester in methanol is generated from the corresponding hydrochloride and triethylamine. Table 4 shows the reaction concentration profiles at 20-25°C. The Schiffs base formation is second order with respect to both the aldehyde and glycine ester. The equilibrium constant (ratio k(forward)/ k(reverse)) is calculated to be 67. 

In a related type of reaction, the styryl isocyanates, readily available by Curtius rearrangement of cinnamoyl azides, undergo thermal cyclization to l-isoquinolones in good yield (equation 34) the reaction can also be carrried out using Friedel-Crafts catalysts. 2,3-Dihydro-4( 1//)- isoquinolones are obtained by Dieckmann cyclization of N- (o- carbalkoxy-benzyl)glycine ester derivatives (equation 35). The same reaction has been used for the synthesis of a range of non-aromatic heterocycles (equations 36 and 37). 

Durch Umsetzung von Oxo-phenyl-thioessigsaure-amid mit Glycin-ester und Aldehyden in Ethanol bei 20-40° konnen die entsprechenden l-(Ethoxycarbonyl-methyl)-4-mercap-to-5-phenyl-imidazole hergestellt werden78. 

A similar reaction is observed with the Cu+2 complex. No reaction occurs with glycine esters. A similar reaction occurs when cobalt (III) complexes are prepared from solutions of hydroxyethylethylenediamine and similar ligands (24, 25). The chelate ring-forming portion of the complex remains intact however, the products derived from the oxidized hydroxyethyl group appear complicated. 

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