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Hydrodehalogenation of alkyl iodides with base-mediated hydrogenation and catalytic transfer hydrogenation: Application to the asymmetric synthesis of N-protected α-methylamines
Mandal, Pijus K.,Birtwistle, J. Sanderson,McMurray, John S.
, p. 8422 - 8427 (2015/03/18)
We report a very mild synthesis of N-protected α-methylamines from the corresponding amino acids. Carboxyl groups of amino acids are reduced to iodomethyl groups via hydroxymethyl intermediates. Reductive deiodination to methyl groups is achieved by hydrogenation or catalytic transfer hydrogenation under alkaline conditions. Basic hydrodehalogenation is selective for the iodomethyl group over hydrogenolysis-labile protecting groups, such as benzyloxycarbonyl, benzyl ester, benzyl ether, and 9-fluorenyloxymethyl, thus allowing the conversion of virtually any protected amino acid into the corresponding N-protected α-methylamine.
Conversion of chiral amino acids to enantiomerically pure α-methylamines
Donner
, p. 1223 - 1226 (2007/10/02)
Enantiomerically enriched α-methylamines are obtained in high yield by Raney nickel reduction of N-Boc-protected, amino acid-derived thioethers.
