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was stirred at 20 C for 20 hours. The crude mixture was then
diluted with an aqueous Na2CO3 solution (10% w/w) and the
aqueous layer was extracted three times with CH2Cl2. The
combined organic layers were dried over anhydrous Na2SO4,
filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue
was quickly purified by flash column chromatography on silica
gel to afford isoxazolidin-5-one 5da (38 mg, 73%, 87%ee).
The reaction was carried out on 1.2 mmol to give 5da in 88%
yield (307 mg, 86%ee).
Scheme 6. Functional group transformation.
Acknowledgements
This work has been partially supported by University of Rouen
Normandy, INSA Rouen Normandy, the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Regional Develop-
ment Fund (ERDF), Labex SynOrg (ANR-11-LABX-0029),
Carnot Institute I2 C, the graduate school for research XL-
Chem (ANR-18-EURE-0020 XL CHEM), and by Region
Normandie. This research was also supported by the French
National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the ANR-16-CE07-
0011-01 project OMaChem.
charcoal of 5da, followed by a TMSCH2N2 promoted
esterification. This sequence afforded a straightforward
elaboration of the phenyl β3-amino acid 8 as crude
product in 94% yield, pure enough for the subsequent
step. Then, after the exploration of reaction conditions,
it was found that substrate 8, under microwave
°
irradiation conditions at 130 C in the presence of an
alcohol (MeOH or BnOH), led to a smooth trans-
formation of the urea moiety into the corresponding
methylcarbamate 10a (73% yield and 84%ee) and the
versatile N-Cbz derivative 10b (85% yield and
83%ee) with almost no loss of ee. This sequence also
allowed us to confirm the absolute configuration of the
isoxazolidinone 5da by chemical analogy with known
compound from the literature (see SI).[25] Based on the
insightful investigations of Lloyd-Jones and Booker-
Milburn,[24b] we propose the formation of an isocyanate
intermediate 9 under neutral conditions, which would
be rapidly trapped by the external alcohol as nucleo-
phile to provide carbamate 10. Nevertheless, this
achievement constitutes a novel application of the
salient reactivity of bulky urea functional groups to the
chemistry of amino acids.
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Experimental Section
To a mixture of diisopropylhydroxyurea 1d (32 mg, 0.2 mmol,
1 equiv.), Meldrum’s acid 3 (28.8 mg, 0.2 mmol, 1 equiv.) and
cupreine organocatalyst 6i (9.5 mg, 0.02 mmol, 10 mol%) were
introduced into a tube under nitrogen and anhydrous THF was
added (1.3 mL, 0.15 M/Meldrum’s acid) and the aldehyde 2a
(0.2 mmol, 1 equiv.) at room temperature. The resulting solution
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