Operationally convenient, efficient asymmetric synthesis of enantiomerically pure 4-aminoglutamic acids via methylene dimerization of chiral glycine equivalents with dichloromethane
a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA b Graduate School of Science, Department of Material Science, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
Abstract:
This paper presents a practical and efficient asymmetric synthesis of enantiomerically pure 4-aminoglutamic acids using a quite unusual methylene dimerization of chiral nucleophilic glycine equivalents with dichloromethane under phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) conditions. From a synthetic standpoint, the reported procedure is highly operationally convenient and scalable as it does not require any chromatographic purification of the intermediate products.