Rapid, one-pot synthesis of urethane-protected tripeptides
作者:Yun-Fei Zhu、William D. Fuller
DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(94)02391-n
日期:1995.2
Urethane-protected tripeptides are synthesized in solution, without isolation or purification of intermediates, using urethane-protected N-carboxyanhydrides as coupling reagents and hydrogenation for removal of N-protection.
Cyanomethylene triphenylphosphoranes of N-protected amino acids were synthesized from the corresponding N-urethane protected α-amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides (UNCAs) by reaction with cyanomethyltriphenylphosphonium chloride in good yields. These compounds are precursors of α-keto esters which are candidates for mimicking the tetrahedric transition state in enzyme inhibitors.
A facile synthesis of a wide variety of N-protected beta-amino alcohol derivatives under mild conditions is described. N-urethane protected amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides (UNCAs) were used as starting material and reduced into the corresponding alcohols with the appropriate hydride, sodium borohydride. The reaction is simple, unexpensive, easily scaled up, and proceeds without observable racemization.