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Development of a practical and scalable synthesis of (R)- and (S)-3-amino-2-[(benzyloxy)methyl]propan-1-ol monohydrochloride: A useful C-4 Chiral Building Block
Yoshida, Shinya,Obitsu, Kazuyoshi,Hayashi, Yasumasa,Shibazaki, Mitsuyoshi,Kimura, Takenori,Takahashi, Takumi,Asano, Toru,Kubota, Hirokazu,Mukuta, Takashi
, p. 1527 - 1537 (2013/02/23)
The development of a practical and scalable synthesis of a C-4 chiral amine building block (R)-1·HCl and (S)-1·HCl is described. This important chiral intermediate (R)-1·HCl is efficiently synthesized from the commercially available, inexpensive, and simple 2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3- propanediol (31) using lipase-catalyzed enantioselective hydrolysis as a key reaction. Development resulted in a telescoped process that was operated successfully and reproducibly in a pilot-plant-scale synthesis, and 22 kg of chiral amine (R)-1·HCl was prepared in the first scale-up synthesis. This synthetic method is also useful for preparation of the important chiral building block (S)-1·HCl, which is the enantiomer of (R)-1·HCl.