- Enantiopure trans -3-arylaziridine-2-carboxamides: Preparation by bacterial hydrolysis and ring-openings toward enantiopure, unnatural D -α-amino acids
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Several racemic trans-3-arylaziridine-2-carboxamides were prepared and then resolved by Rhodococcus rhodochrous IFO 15564-catalyzed hydrolysis. The resulting enantiopure (2R,3S)-3-arylaziridine-2-carboxamides are adequate substrates to undergo fully stereoselective nucleophilic ring-openings at the C-3 ring position to finally yield enantiopure, unnatural d-α- aminocarboxylic acids. Experimental evidence is provided that suggests the fate of the (2S,3R)-3-arylaziridine-2-carboxylic acids concomitantly formed during the resolution processes. In this context, the similar bacterial resolution of racemic 1-arylaziridine-2-carboxamides and -carbonitriles, previously investigated by our research group, has been partially re-examined.
- Moran-Ramallal, Roberto,Liz, Ramon,Gotor, Vicente
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experimental part
p. 6614 - 6624
(2010/11/17)
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