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A one-pot procedure for the preparation of N-9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl- α-amino diazoketones from α-amino acids
Siciliano, Carlo,De Marco, Rosaria,Guidi, Ludovica Evelin,Spinella, Mariagiovanna,Liguori, Angelo
, p. 10575 - 10582 (2013/02/22)
The study describes a new "one-pot" route to the synthesis of N-9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc) α-amino diazoketones. The procedure was tested on a series of commercially available free or side-chain protected α-amino acids employed as precursors. The conversion into the title compounds was achieved by masking and activating the α-amino acids with a single reagent, namely, 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (Fmoc-Cl). The resulting N-protected mixed anhydrides were reacted with diazomethane to lead to the α-amino diazoketones, which were isolated by flash column chromatography in very good to excellent overall yields. The versatility of the procedure was verified on lipophilic α-amino acids and further demonstrated by the preparation of N-Fmoc-α-amino diazoketones also from α-amino acids containing side-chain masking groups, which are orthogonal to the Fmoc one. The results confirmed that tert-butyloxycarbonyl (Boc), tert-butyl (tBu), and 2,2,4,6,7-pentamethyldihydrobenzofuran-5-sulfonyl (Pbf), three acid-labile protecting groups mostly adopted in the solution and solid-phase peptide synthesis, are compatible to the adopted reaction conditions. In all cases, the formation of the corresponding C-methyl ester of the starting amino acid was not observed. Moreover, the proposed method respects the chirality of the starting α-amino acids. No racemization occurred when the procedure was applied to the synthesis of the respective N-Fmoc-protected α-amino diazoketones from l-isoleucine and l-threonine and to the preparation of a diastereomeric pair of N-Fmoc-protected dipeptidyl diazoketones.
Convenient and simple homologation of Nα-urethane protected α-amino acids to their β-homologues with concomitant o-nitrophenylesters formation
Ananda,Gopi,Suresh Babu
, p. 790 - 795 (2007/10/03)
The Wolff rearrangement of α-aminodiazoketones derived from Nα-urethane protected α-amino acids in presence of o-nitrophenol catalyzed by silver acetate at low temperature is described. The potential utility of the well-known ketene intermediat
