Reactions of glycidyl derivatives with ambident nucleophiles; part 2: amino acid derivatives

• Gerald Dyker,
• Andreas Thöne and
• Gerald Henkel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 28, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-28

• functionality, in both cases at a terminal carbon atom of 2. All attempts to achieve a one-step cyclization according to Scheme 1 starting from glycine or from phenylglycine seemed to fail under various reaction conditions (for instance one equiv. of NaOH, K2CO3 or triethylamine in water), regularly giving rise

• to solid, presumably oligomeric material, insoluble even in DMSO. We therefore tested the stepwise, controlled synthesis of products of type 3a with glycidyl esters of N-acyl [6] and N-tosyl glycine and phenylglycine as isolated key intermediates: under basic reaction conditions (NaH, sec-BuLi or LDA