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• 32089-81-9 2-benzoylamino-3-p-tolyl-acrylic acid 
• 4599-47-7 p-methylphenylalanine 
• 98-88-4 benzoyl chloride 
• 82309-33-9 4-(4-methylbenzylidene)-2-phenyloxazol-5-one 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Asymmetric construction of dihydrobenzofuran-2,5-dione derivatives via desymmetrization of p-quinols with azlactones

The desymmetrization of p-quinols through a chiral bisguanidinium hemisalt catalyzed enantioselective Michael addition/lactonization cascade reaction with azlactones was reported. 3-Amino-benzofuran-2,5-diones containing a chiral amino acid residue were achieved with up to 99% ee and >19?:?1 dr. An exploration of the structure of the catalyst bisguanidinium was undertaken, revealing a bifunctional catalytic model.

Unexpected hydrolytic instability of N-acylated amino acid amides and peptides

Remote amide bonds in simple N-acyl amino acid amide or peptide derivatives 1 can be surprisingly unstable hydrolytically, affording, in solution, variable amounts of 3 under mild acidic conditions, such as trifluoroacetic acid/water mixtures at room temperature. This observation has important implications for the synthesis of this class of compounds, which includes N-terminal-acylated peptides. We describe the factors contributing to this instability and how to predict and control it. The instability is a function of the remote acyl group, R2CO, four bonds away from the site of hydrolysis. Electron-rich acyl R2 groups accelerate this reaction. In the case of acyl groups derived from substituted aromatic carboxylic acids, the acceleration is predictable from the substituent's Hammett σ value. N-Acyl dipeptides are also hydrolyzed under typical cleavage conditions. This suggests that unwanted peptide truncation may occur during synthesis or prolonged standing in solution when dipeptides or longer peptides are acylated on the N-terminus with electron-rich aromatic groups. When amide hydrolysis is an undesired secondary reaction, as can be the case in the trifluoroacetic acid-catalyzed cleavage of amino acid amide or peptide derivatives 1 from solid-phase resins, conditions are provided to minimize that hydrolysis.

Ring opening with kinetic resolution of azlactones by Ti-TADDOLates

The kinetic resolution of azlactones by the Lewis, acid-mediated transfer of an isopropoxide ligand from the chiral ligand sphere of Ti- TADDOLate is described. The reactions proceed with in-situ racemization of the starting material to afford highly enantiomerically enriched N-benzoyl- amino acid isopropylesters (er > 95:5 after recrystallization). The absolute configuration of the major enantiomer of N-benzoyl-phenylalanine isopropyl ester and its analogs with other aromatic substituents was shown to be (S)- (+) when the (R,R)-Ti-TADDOLate was employed. Only benzyl-substituted azlactones can be opened enantioselectively by the method described here.