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Can. J. Chem. 78(6): 800–808 (2000)  |  doi:10.1139/cjc-78-6-800  |  © 2000 NRC Canada  

Trifluoroacetic acid-mediated intramolecular formal N-H insertion reactions with amino-a-diazoketones: a facile and efficient synthesis of optically pure pyrrolidinones and piperidinones


Hua Yang, Valdas Jurkauskas, Nicole Mackintosh, Tobias Mogren, Corey RJ Stephenson, Katherine Foster, William Brown, and Edward Roberts


Abstract: Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) was found to promote intramolecular formal N-H insertion reactions. Upon treatment with TFA, optically pure N-Boc-b'-amino-a-diazoketones (5a-c) and N-Boc-g'-amino-a-diazoketones (10a-d) can be converted, with retention of chirality, into pyrrolidinones (11a-c) and piperidinones (12a-d), respectively, with concomitant removal of the Boc group, in good to excellent yields.

Key words: a-diazoketone, amino acid, pyrrolidinone, piperidinone, N-H insertion.


Résumé : Le TFA induit des réactions d'insertion formelle de N-H intramoléculaires. Par traitement avec du TFA, les N-Boc-b'-amino-a-diazocétones (5a-c) et les N-Boc-g'-amino-a-diazocétones (10a-d) optiquement pures peuvent être converties avec rétention de chiralité en pyrrolidinones (11a-c) et pipéridinones (12a-d) avec déprotection simultanée de l'amine dans de bons à excellents rendements.

Mots clés : a-diazocétone, acide aminé, pyrrolidinone, pipéridinone, insertion de N-H.


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