Tetrahedron
Lettera
No. 43,
PP 3737 - 374G,
1975.
Pergamen Pree8.
Printed
in Great Britain.
AMIDOALXYLATION OF OLEFINS WITH
AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS II.
GLYOXYLICACID DERIVATIVES
Janina Department (Received Synthetic lysine)!
in UK 31 July
amino acids
In . the synthesis
as sweetening
agents
We would like
to report
semialdehyde glyoxylic
a sulfonic
acid
catalyst
(m.p.
97”,
afforded
afforded
to the benzamido
46%).
(8, acids
Isobutylene
reacted
3
agents
(e.g.
EDTA).
acids
and related
ester
by reacting
styrene,
the methyl ester
esters
2 (m.p.
tetramethylethylene
in boiling
benzene
of the N-benzoyl 163’C)
and
and in the presence
unsaturated
which was obtained
o-amino
in 57% yield,
193’,
51%);
methyl
1 (m.p.
esters
212,
42’);
-17 (m.p. 146, 27%) and 18 as oils. The crude acid a, was
were obtained Both the
3 and the
4-pentenoic
acid
derivatives
-9 on cyclization.
with
-10 depending trifluoride etherate
the methyl
on the
a-methoxyhippurate
reaction
conditions6
to
give
In ether
the oxazine
solution
13,
or the
and in the presence
(14%) of
oxazine -13 was obtained in 53% yield together with the In dioxane-sulfuric acid solution isobutylene afforded
a-hydroxyhippuric
acid
same experimental
and isobutylene,
or as chelating
a-hydroxyhippuric
styrene,
of two isomers.
the oily
type -2. 5,5-dimethyl-a-benzamidobutyrolactone
Under the
methionine, (Ampicillin,..),
to the S,S-diphenyl-5 (m.p. 206’C) and further cyclized 198’). By using the same procedure we have prepared the
The corresponding
benzamidolactone
yield
(e.g.
acid
5 (m.p.
the same butyrolactone
of boron
additives
(16) aspartic acid (20), aspartic acid unsaturated o-amino acid derivatives by the
u-methoxyhippurate
methyl
m.p.
to the nmr a mixture
unsaturated
15 September 1975)
and cephalosporins
ester)4
Israel
leucine
o-methyl
The diphenyl
benzamido
according
methyl of
with methyl
a-benzamidobutyrolactone crystalline
as food
penicillins
(fi,g,15) and other with methyl a-methoxyhippurate,
l,l-diphenylethylene,
(2-4,17,18). --_-
was hydrolyzed
publication
Haifa,
amide adducts?
Reacting
acids
of Technology,
for
applications
semi-synthetic
a new synthesis
2,5-dimethyl-2,4-hexadiene of
Institute
1975; accepted
(aspartylphenylalanine
of olefins
acid
Reuven Moshberg and Dov Ben-Ishai* ‘Israel
have found
of
derivatives
amidoalkylation
Altman,
of Chemistry,
conditions
(m.p.
176”,
with
45%)7
isobutylene
we have obtained
The same lactone
was obtained
in dioxane-sulphuric
acid
in 73%
solution.
from a-hydroxy-N-benzyloxycarbonylglycine’ 8 S,S-dimethyl-a-benzyloxycarbonylaminobutyrolactone (m.p. 94”, 65%).
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C02Me
\
15
CH -CH(OMe)2 I2 PhCONH-CH-C02Me
Lt. R=AcO; R'=H
13. R=Rl=Me
R'
R
1
H2S04
NHCOPh
Rl'
BF3 R.T.
= CH2 + MTH-C02Me
R, C
/ Me
Me \
Dioxane
11. R=MeO; R1=H
Pd-C H+
10. R=Rl=Me
9. R=Ph; R1=Me
8. R=R'=Ph H+
0
NHCOPh
16
NH2
CH-CH2-fH-C02H
9
0
R R'
H+
A PhH
A
H+
yy$Y
R*
R\
t
2. R=Rl=Ph
NHCoPh
7. R=Ph; R1=H
6. R=Ph; R'=Me
5. R=Rl=Ph
kCOPh
C = CH-CH-C02H
4. R=Ph, R=H
OH- 3. R=Ph, R1=Me
No. k3
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The lactone -10 was opened with n-butanol to give a mixture of butyl esters
in the presence of 8-naphthalene sulfonic
of S,y and y.6 dehydro-N-benzoylleucine.
genation of the crude mixture followed by acid hydrolysis
Catalytic
acid
hydro-
gave the amino acid in 70% yield
The two isomeric unsaturated esters were also separated and converted
(based on the lactone).
The S,y-dehydrobenzoyllecine
to the u-benzamido acids.
melted at 132’ and the y,6 isomer
melted at 134’* Vinyl acetate reacted with methyl a-methoxyhippurate in benzene solution presence of boron trifluoride 1,3-oxazine-4-carboxylic
dimethylacetal
to give the oily methyl ester of 5,6-dihydro-6-acetoxy-2-phenylThe acetoxyoxazine which is a derivative
acid (14). -
semialdehyde was converted,
on treatment with methanolic sulfuric
of N-benzoylaspartic
acid semialdehyde (15).
to 5-methoxy-u-benzamidobutyrolactone with aqueous phosphoric acid. of two stereomers.
product (m.p. 64”) and an oil.
in sulfuric-acetic aspartic
of aspartic
acid
to the methyl ester was further converted
on treatment with aqueous base followed by acidification
Both the oxazine -14 and lactone -11 were obtained as mixtures column to give a crystalline
The lactones were separated by fractional
crystallization
from
and melted at 183’ and 147’.
a-Hydroxy-N-butoxycarbonylglycine carbamate (m.p.
acid,
The latter
The oxazines 14, were separated on a florisil
ethyl acetate-hexane
and in the
(19) which was prepared from glyoxylic -
in analogy to the preparation
76”J
of the benzyl derivative5
acid mixture with l,l-dichloroethylene
acid (20, 47%).
above had satisfactory
acid and n-butyl
chloroformate.
analyses and showed characteristic
C12C = CH2+HO-CH-C02H NHC02C4H9
-19
H,SO,
with an authentic
All the new compounds described
infrared,
CH -C02H * i 2 C4H90CCNHCH -C02H
-20
was found to react
to give in one step N-butoxycarbonyl
The product which melted at 114’ was identical
sample prepared from aspartic
acid and butyl
nmr and mass spectra.
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