Steric effects on the isomer equilibrium of amides N-terminal to proline can be explored with 5-alkylprolines having bulky 5-position substituents. Enantiopure 5-tert-butylprolines were thus synthesized from glutamic acid via an acylation/diastereoselective reductive amination sequence. Double deprotonation of gamma-methyl N-(PhF)glutamate (2) with LiN(SiMe(3))(2) and C-acylation with pivaloyl chloride provided beta-keto ester 3, which upon gamma-ester hydrolysis and decarboxylation gave delta-oxo-alpha-[N-(PhF)amino]heptanoic acid (4). Syntheses of (2S,5R)- and (2R, 5S)-N-(BOC)-5-tert-butylprolines ((2S,5R)-1 and (2R,5S)-1) were accomplished by catalytic hydrogenation of their respective (2S)- and (2R)-methyl delta-ore-alpha-[N-(PhF)amino]heptanoates ((2S)-5a and (2R)-5a) in methanol with di-tert-butyl dicarbonate followed by chromatography and ester hydrolysis with potassium trimethylsilanolate. The 5-tert-butylproline cis-diastereomers were proven to be of >99% enantiomeric purity after their conversion to diastereomeric alpha-methylbenzylamides 10. Good diastereoselectivity in favor of the trans-diastereomer was observed when (2S,5S)-5-tert-butylproline was synthesized from (2S)-delta-oxo-alpha-[N-(PkF)amino]heptanoate ((2S)-4) by solvolysis of the PhF group in trifluoroacetic acid and subsequent reduction of 5-tert-butyl-Delta 5-dehydroproline (11) with tetramethylammonium triacetoxyborohydride; however, imino acid 11 was shown to be configurationally labile and racemized under acidic conditions. 5-tert-Butyl-Delta 5-dehydroproline N'-methylamide 15 was configurationally stable in acid, yet preliminary attempts to reduce 15 favored cis-diastereomer 16. Alternatively, enantiopure trans-diastereomer, (2R,5R)-methyl N-(BOC)-5-tert-butylprolinate (9) was prepared by epimerization of(2S,5R)-9. In summary, this synthetic methodology now provides access to all four enantiopure 5-tert-butylproline isomers from inexpensive L- and D-glutamate as chiral educts.
Synthesis of enantiopure .delta.-oxo .alpha.-amino esters and prolines via acylation of N-(phenylfluorenyl)glutamate enolates
摘要:
Acylation of the lithium gamma-enolate of alpha-tert-butyl gamma-methyl N-[9-(9-phenylfluorenyl)]glutamate (1) with different acid chlorides provides beta-keto esters 2. Selective gamma-ester hydrolysis and decarboxylation furnishes good yields of enantiomerically pure delta-oxo alpha-amino esters 3 possessing primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl, as well as aromatic delta-substituents. Acylation of 1 with methyl oxalyl chloride is followed by condensation of the ketone and amine of 2 to give N-(PhF1)-DELTA2-pyrroline triester 4 in 75% yield. Palladium-catalyzed hydrogenation of (2S)-tert-butyl 4-oxo-2-(N-(PhFl)amino)nonanoate (3f) yields >99.5% enantiopure (2S,5S)-5-butylproline tert-butyl ester (5), an intermediate in the synthesis of 2,5-dialkylpyrrolidine alkaloids.