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Synthesis 1999; 1999(4): 704-717
DOI: 10.1055/s-1999-3456
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Chiral 3,6-Dihydro-2H-1,4-oxazin-2-ones as Alanine Equivalents for the Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Methyl α-Amino Acids (AMAAs) under Mild Reaction Conditions

Rafael Chinchilla* , Nuria Galindo, Carmen Nájera
  • *Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alicante, Apartado 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain; Fax +34(96)5 90 35 49; E-mail: cnajera@ua.es; chinchilla@ua.es
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31 December 1999 (online)

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3,6-Dihydro-2H-1,4-oxazin-2-ones 1 act as very reactive chiral cyclic alanine equivalents and can be diastereoselectively alkylated or allylated using mild reaction conditions: potassium carbonate under phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) conditions when using activated alkyl halides, organic bases such as tert-butylimino-2-diethylamino-1,3-dimethylperhydro-1,3,2-diazaphosphorine (BEMP) or 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) when using unactivated alkyl halides, and neutral Pd(0)-catalysis when allylic carbonates are used. In most cases, the diastereoselectivity under all these different reaction conditions is excellent although the reactions are always carried out at room temperature. Hydrolysis of the obtained alkylated or allylated oxazinones allows the preparation of enantiomerically enriched (S)-α-methyl α-amino acids (S)-AMAAs. The PTC and organic base methodologies have also been applied to the synthesis of (R)-α-methyl α-amino acids starting from (R)-alanine. When dihalides are used as electrophiles under PTC or BEMP conditions, a spontaneous N-alkylation also takes place giving bicyclic oxazinones, which can be hydrolyzed to enantiomerically pure cyclic (S)-AMAAs.

amino acids - asymmetric synthesis - oxazinones - phase-transfer catalysis - palladium catalysis

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