Propargyl glycine

Once an alkyne moiety is introduced into a peptide, e.g., as propargyl glycine (Pgl) in place of a simple glycine in Enk, it can of course be used directly for complexation to a metal complex. Along those lines, we have reacted Co2(CO)g with the peptide Ac-Tyr-Gly-Pgl-Phe-Leu-NH2, to yield the Co2(CO)6 complexed to the Pgl alkyne side chain [32]. In a real SPPS scheme with a pre-formed metal-alkyne complex, the amino acid building block [Tp WI(CO)(ri2-Fmoc-Pgl-OH)] was incorporated to yield the side-chain substituted Enk derivative H-Tyr-Gly-[Tp W(I)(CO)(r 2-Pgl)]-Phe-Leu-OH (Tp tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)-borate) [44]. 

Finally, enzyme inhibitors can also be used to induce an animal model of a genetic disease. Inactivation of 7-cystathionase by propargyl-glycine, for example, produces an experimental model of the disease state known as cysta-... 

Fig. 11 The choice of the iodonium complex of pyridines provides control over the iodocyclization/oxidation of a-propargylic glycine...

We have found that 2-amino-3-butenoic acid is an irreversible inhibitor of soluble, pyridoxal phosphate linked aspartate amino transferase l. Finally, propargyl glycine has been reported to be an Irreversible inhibitor of pyrldoxal-linked Y cystathionase. It is assumed that an isomerization of the acetylene to the reactive allene follows the initial a-C-H bond cleavage22. 

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]. 

Very recently, Maruoka and co-workers described a new N-spiro quaternary ammonium bromide with two chiral biphenyl structures as easily modifiable subunits [37]. These phase-transfer catalysts with biphenyl subunits, containing methyl groups in the 6,6 -position for inducing chirality, and additionally bulky substituents in the 4-position, efficiently catalyzed the alkylation of protected glycinate with high enantioselectivity of up to 97% ee. The substrate range is broad, for example (substituted) benzyl bromide and allylic and propargylic bromides are tolerated [37]. 

The reaction has been extensively used for the synthesis of a-amino acids (entries 3-5),559 //-/ -amino alcohols (entry 6),560 aminophenol (entry 7),561 optically active A-substituted glycines (entries 7 and 8),562 a-hydrazinocarboxylic acids (entry 9),563 A-sulfinyl and A-alkoxy-a-amino acids (entries 10 and ll),564 and propargyl amines (entry 12).565... 

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