摘要:
                                Preparation of several protected (D)-chlorophenylalanine derivatives in high optical purity and their complex formation with the [RuCp]+ moiety are described.  The complexation reaction, as well as subsequent photochemical decomplexations, proceeds with retention of optical purity.  Reactions of these chloroarene complexes with 3-hydroxyphenylglycine derivatives proceed under mild conditions to give aryl ether-ruthenium complexes, which can be converted to diaryl ethers in which both aromatic rings have protected amino acid or peptide side chains.  Efforts to effect cycloamidation to give vancomycin carboxylate-binding pocket analogues, using a number of known coupling reagents, were unsuccessful.