A novel asymmetric synthesis of cinacalcet hydrochloride

• Veera R. Arava,
• Laxminarasimhulu Gorentla and
• Pramod K. Dubey

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1366–1373, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.158

• reaction progress, i.e., n-BuLi, LDA, Cs2CO3 with dppf/PdCl2, K2CO3 with Cu(I)/L-proline, NaH and TEA. All of them failed to initiate the reaction. Only LiHMDS worked well for the regioselective N-alkylation of sulfinylamide 4a in a better yield (72% isolated pure product) than the earlier reported

Thiophene-based donor–acceptor co-oligomers by copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

• Stefanie Potratz,
• Amaresh Mishra and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 683–692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.76

• sulfate, 10 mol % sodium ascorbate, which reduces Cu(II) to Cu(I), 10 mol % sodium carbonate and 20 mol % L-proline as ligand were reacted in the solvent system DMSO–water at 60 °C. The co-oligomeric product 5 was obtained in only 10% yield (Table 1, entry 1). When the stabilizing ligand was changed to N

A concise synthesis of 3-(1-alkenyl)isoindolin-1-ones and 5-(1-alkenyl)pyrrol-2-ones by the intermolecular coupling reactions of N-acyliminium ions with unactivated olefins

• Nianhong Lu,
• Lihong Wang,
• Zhanshan Li and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 192–200, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.21

• 1-alkenylboronic acid, or esters [23][24] besides allylsilane. For example, Angst reported the coupling of styrylsilanes with N-acyl-2-chloroglycine esters catalyzed by SnCl4 to give the 3-styryl glycine derivatives in 1987 [19]; Wistrand reported the coupling of methyl 1-acyl-5-methoxy-L-proline

• with 1-alkenylcoppers catalyzed by BF3·OEt2 to give methyl 1-acyl-5-(1-alkenyl)-L-proline in 1992 [20]; Menicagli reported the coupling of N-acylisoquinolium chloride with di-isobutyl 1-hexenylalanes to give 1,2-dihydro-2-acyl-1-hexenylisoquinolines in 2008 [22]; Schaus reported the coupling of 1

Continuous proline catalysis via leaching of solid proline

• Suzanne M. Opalka,
• Ashley R. Longstreet and
• D. Tyler McQuade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1671–1679, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.197

• homogeneous catalyst can be prepared continuously via reaction with a packed-bed of a catalyst precursor. Specifically, we perform continuous proline catalyzed α-aminoxylations using a packed-bed of L-proline. The system relies on a multistep sequence in which an aldehyde and thiourea additive are passed

• reduction. To our knowledge, this is the first example in which a homogeneous catalyst is produced continuously using a packed-bed. We predict that the method will not only be useful for other L-proline catalyzed reactions, but we also foresee that it could be used to produce other catalytic species in flow

• we illustrate a unique use of catalysts in flow, but we provide additional insight into the role of additives in proline-catalyzed reactions. Results and Discussion In our previously published batch work, we found that the combination of L-proline and bifunctional urea 3a greatly accelerated the rate

Tertiary alcohol preferred: Hydroxylation of trans-3-methyl-L-proline with proline hydroxylases

• Christian Klein and
• Wolfgang Hüttel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1643–1647, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.193

• of trans-3-methyl-L-proline with the α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) dependent oxygenases, cis-3-proline hydroxylase type II and cis-4-proline hydroxylase (cis-P3H_II and cis-P4H). With cis-P3H_II, the tertiary alcohol product (3R)-3-hydroxy-3-methyl-L-proline was obtained exclusively but in reduced yield (~7

• %) compared to the native substrate L-proline. For cis-P4H, a complete shift in regioselectivity from C-4 to C-3 was observed so that the same product as with cis-P3H_II was obtained. Moreover, the yields were at least as good as in control reactions with L-proline (~110% relative yield). This result

• stereospecific hydroxylation of trans-3-methyl-L-proline to (3R)-3-hydroxy-3-methyl-L-proline with two different proline hydroxylases. In contrast to the mechanistically related and more common prolyl hydroxylases, which accept peptide bound proline as a substrate and play a key role in collagen biosynthesis

Natural product biosyntheses in cyanobacteria: A treasure trove of unique enzymes

• Jan-Christoph Kehr,
• Douglas Gatte Picchi and
• Elke Dittmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1622–1635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.191

• neurotoxins produced by cyanobacteria. A gene cluster for the alkaloid was first described for the strain Oscillatoria sp. PCC 6506 [36]. Analysis of the gene cluster and feeding studies suggested a biosynthetic scheme starting from L-proline and involving three polyketide synthases, with (S)-1-pyrolline-5

PEG-embedded KBr₃: A recyclable catalyst for multicomponent coupling reaction for the efficient synthesis of functionalized piperidines

• Sanny Verma,
• Suman L. Jain and
• Bir Sain

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1334–1341, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.157

• tetrabutylammonium tribromide (TBATB) [30], bromodimethylsulfonium bromide (BDMS) [31], InCl3 [32] and L-proline/TFA [33] were reported for the one-pot syntheses of these heterocyclic compounds. However, tedious synthetic procedures, the need for high catalyst loadings, and the expense and non-recyclability of the

Palladium- and copper-mediated N-aryl bond formation reactions for the synthesis of biological active compounds

• Carolin Fischer and
• Burkhard Koenig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 59–74, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.10

• bromide affected the yield only marginally [63]. A second example of intramolecular coupling is the synthesis of promazine drugs (56) that are interesting due to their clinical use for psychotropic medication. The CuI/L-proline-catalysed cascade process, developed by Ma et al., gave the best yields when 2

Synthesis of glycosylated β³-homo-threonine conjugates for mucin-like glycopeptide antigen analogues

• Florian Karch and
• Anja Hoffmann-Röder

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 47, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.47

• -L-valyl-O-[α-3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-galactopyranosyl]-homo-β3-threonyl-L-seryl-L-alanyl-L-prolyl-L-aspartyl-L-threonyl-L-arginyl-L-prolyl-L-alanyl-L-prolyl-L-glycyl-L-seryl-L-threonyl-L-alanyl-L-proline 7: The synthesis was carried out in an Applied Biosystems ABI 433A peptide

• -L-alanyl-L-prolyl-L-glycyl-L-seryl-L-threonyl-L-alanyl-L-proline 8: Peptide 7 was dissolved in 10 mL of methanol (HPLC grade). A fresh solution of sodium methanolate in methanol (0.5 g Na in 25 mL methanol (HPLC grade)) was added drop wise until pH 9.5 was reached. The reaction mixture was stirred

A convenient method for preparing rigid-core ionic liquid crystals

• Julien Fouchet,
• Laurent Douce,
• Benoît Heinrich,
• Richard Welter and
• Alain Louati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.51

• sealed tube over 72 h to afford 1-[4-(dodecyloxy)phenyl]-1H-imidazole (A) in a good (<80%) and reproducible yield (Scheme 2). Swager has already published the synthesis of compound A under standard Ullman conditions (K2CO3, CuI, L-proline in DMSO, 16 h at 110 °C) [22]. The aryl-imidazole A was purified

Synthesis of (S)-1-(2-chloroacetyl)pyrrolidine- 2-carbonitrile: A key intermediate for dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitors

• Santosh K. Singh,
• Narendra Manne and
• Manojit Pal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 20, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.20

• -carbonitrile was achieved. Reaction of L-proline with chloroacetyl chloride was followed by conversion of the carboxylic acid moiety of the resulting N-acylated product into the carbonitrile via the corresponding amide intermediate. The synthesized pyrrolidine derivative was utilized to prepare DPP-IV

• inhibitor Vildagliptin. Keywords: amides; DPP-IV inhibitors; L-proline; N-acylation; 2(S)-cyanopyrrolidine; Background One of the emerging and mechanism based approaches for the treatment of type-II diabetes is dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV; CD26; E.C. 3.4.14.5) inhibition with the help of small

• decided to use L-proline in place of L-prolinamide because of its easy availability. Additionally, we anticipated that the chloroacetyl group (which is also a part of the target intermediate) might play the role of a protecting group so that the use of an additional protecting group and its removal (i.e