Lipase-catalysed kinetic resolution in organic solvents: an approach to enantiopure α-methyl-β-alanine esters
摘要:
The Candida antarctica lipase A (CAL-A) and B (CAL-B)-catalysed resolutions of alpha-methyl-beta-alanine ethyl ester 1 wit neat ethyl and butyl butanoates and with 2,12-trifluoroethyl butanoate in organic solvents Were Studied, as were the alcoholyses in neat butanol and with methanol (0.8 M) in diisopropyl ether. The two enzymes, which display opposite (S for CAL-A and R for CAL-B) and low enantioselectivities (E=7-10), allowed the preparation of the two enantiomers in a two-step resolution protocol. The R enantiomer (ee=97%) was first separated as its Boc-protected derivative front the CAL-A-catalysed resolution mixture of (R)-1 and the enantiomerically enriched N-butanoylated counterpart. The enantiopurification of the latter gave the S enantiomer (ec=96%)) in the following CAL-B-catalysed 'interesterification' in butyl butanoate. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
The stereoselective synthesis of chiral beta(2)-homoalanine derivatives with 99% ee by the Rh-catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of prochiral 2-aminomethyl acrylates is described. The subsequent transformation to chiral 3-amino-2-methylpropanols is also demonstrated. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.