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Chemo-enzymatic preparation of chiral 3-aminopyrrolidine derivatives
Iding, Hans,Wirz, Beat,Rogers-Evans, Mark
, p. 647 - 653 (2004)
A new simple method for the enantioselective enzymatic hydrolysis of N-protected D-asparagine esters suitable for the use on the preparative scale is presented. Due to major obstacles observed under conventional reaction conditions - racemization of the retained ester and a strong enzyme inactivation - a comparatively low pH together with an organic co-solvent had to be employed. Under these conditions, nearly all tested proteases demonstrated good activity and excellent enantioselectivity giving access to the corresponding D-esters and L-asparagines in high optical purities (>95% ee) and good chemical yields (>40%). From the unnatural D-asparagine derivative, sequential cyclization, selective deprotection and reduction yielded efficiently benzyl protected (R)-3-aminopyrrolidine, a homo-chiral building block utilized in numerous drug candidates.
