Ruthenium complexes amino acids

When we first contemplated thermochemical products available from Glu, a search of the literature revealed no studies expressly directed at hydrogenation to a specific product. Indeed, the major role that Glu plays in hydrogenation reactions is to act as an enantioselectivity enhancer (17,18). Glu (or a number of other optically active amino acids) is added to solutions containing Raney nickel, supported nickel, palladium, or ruthenium catalysts and forms stereoselective complexes on the catalyst surface, leading to enantioselective hydrogenation of keto-groups to optically active alcohols. Under the reaction conditions used, no hydrogenation of Glu takes place. 

Tris(2,2 -bipyridine)ruthenium(UI) complex ions (44) produce a chemiluminescence in the presence of amino acids in a FTA system. Amino acids containing secondary amino groups have the strongest response LOD 20 pmol for proline to 50 nmol for... 

Sinou and coworkers evaluated a range of enantiopure amino alcohols derived from tartaric acid for the ATH reduction of prochiral ketones. Various (2R,iR)-i-amino- and (alkylamino)-l,4-bis(benzyloxy)butan-2-ol were obtained from readily available (-I-)-diethyl tartrate. These enantiopure amino alcohols have been used with Ru(p-cymene)Cl2 or Ir(l) precursors as ligands in the hydrogen transfer reduction of various aryl alkyl ketones ee-values of up to 80% have been obtained using the ruthenium complex [93]. Using (2R,3R)-3-amino-l,4-bis(benzyloxy)butan-2-ol and (2R,3R)-3-(benzylamino)-l,4-bis(benzyloxy)butan-2-ol with [lr(cod)Cl]2 as precursor, the ATH of acetophenone resulted in a maximum yield of 72%, 30% ee, 3h, 25 °C in PrOH/KOH with the former, and 88% yield, 28% ee, 120 h with the latter. 

Kinetic parameters k, often also and AS, occasionally AV ) for formation and dissociation of several pentacyanoferrate(II) complexes [Fe(CN)5L]" have been established. Ligands L include several S- and A-donor heterocycles,4-methyl- and 4-amino-pyridines, a series of alkylamines, 3- and 4-hydroxy- and 3- and 4-methoxy-pyridines, several amino acids, nicotinamide, " 4-pyridine aldoxime, 3-Me and 3-Ph sydnones, several bis-pyridine ligands,neutral, protonated, and methylated 4,4 -bipyridyl, 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane and traTO-l,2-bis0-pyridyl)ethene, pyrazine- 4,4 -bipyridyl- and bis(4-pyridyl)ethyne-pentaammine-cobalt(III), edta-ruthenium(III), and pentaammineruthenium-(II)and-(III) complexes of... 

A fluorescent complex [Ru(r 6-p-cym)Cl(L)]Cl (L = 2-[(2-aminoethyl)amino] ethyl-2-(methylamino)benzoate) has been synthesised by tagging a small fluoro-genic reporter onto the chelating ligand. The interaction of this complex with porcine liver esterase (PLE) showed that esterase-catalysed hydrolysis reactions can liberate methylisatoic acid (MIAH) from the ruthenium complex suggesting a possible use of similar derivatives in esterase-activated Ru-based prodrug delivery systems. The hydrolysis reaction appears to be slow [156]. 

An important application of oxidation of a C-H bond adjacent to a nitrogen atom is the selective oxidation of amides. This reaction proceeds in the presence of ferf-BuOOH as the oxidant and Ru(II) salts. Thus in the example of Eq. (36), the a-tert-butylperoxy amide of the isoquinoline was obtained, which is an important synthetic intermediate for natural products [138]. This product can be conveniently reacted with a nucleophile in the presence of a Lewis add. Direct trapping of the iminium ion complex by a nudeophile was achieved in the presence of trimethylsilyl cyanide, giving a-cyanated amines as shown in Eq. (37) [45]. This ruthenium/peracid oxidation reaction provides an alternative to the Strecker reaction for the synthesis of a-amino acid derivatives since they involve the same a-cyano amine intermediates. In this way N-methyl-N-(p-methoxyphenyl) glycine could be prepared from N,N-dimethyl-p-methoxyaniline in 82% yield. 

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