Protective groups, hydroxamic acid synthesis

Very recently, Mordini and coworkers" have overcome the problems associated with the long reaction times that are normally required for the synthesis of hydroxamic acids from esters by performing these transformations under MW irradiation. The protective groups are also well tolerated under these reaction conditions, though a partial deprotection of the feri-butoxycarbonyl (Boc) group was observed in the reaction with Boc-proline ester. Amidic bonds and ketals also survive without any detectable decomposition. All the reactions go to completion in about six minutes, except in the case of the conversion of Boc-protected phenylalanine methyl ester, which required longer reaction times (12 min). 

In 2002, Couturier and coworkers investigated the possibility of using a dioxazole as an aprotic hydroxamic acid protective group. In this context, the masked hydroxamic acid could be introduced earlier in the synthesis and could perhaps be released in a single operation at the end of the sequence. 

Stereospecific synthesis of succinyl derivatives is now commonly carried out as shown in Scheme 7. The tert-butyl ester of the succinyl amino acid methylamides 16 was treated with TFA to deprotect the carboxy group, which was then activated by isobutyl chloroformate and reacted with H2NOTMS.[18] The OTMS protection was removed during the isolation and purification of the hydroxamic acid 17. 

Shaw and McDowell41 have prepared imidazolone derivatives by cyclization of a-acylamino amides. In a variation of this reaction the azlactone (30) was gradually converted to the hydroxamic acid (31) by methanolic hydroxylamine. Sodium methoxide and hydroxylamine readily gave the acyclic hydroxamic acid (32) which could be cyclized to 31 by dilute acid. Benzyloxyurea has been used in the synthesis of pyrimidine hydroxamic acids (33) by reaction42 with /3-diketones followed by catalytic hydrogenation of the benzyl group. Protection... 

P-Lactams.1 A biomimetic synthesis of /3-lactams from chiral amino acids such as L-serine has been developed by Mattingly and co-workers. The protected amino acid (1) is first converted into the O-alkyl or O-acyl hydroxamate (2), which undergoes cyclization to derivatives of l-hydroxy-2-azetidinones on treatment with triphenylphosphine-carbon tetrachloride. This cyclization is also possible with triphenylphosphine-diethyl azodicarboxylate.2 The final step involves reduction of the N—OH group with TiClj.3 The advantage of this method over that of Wasserman (9,428), which involves cyclization of /3-haloamides, is that a strong base such as NaH is not required. 

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