812679-22-4Relevant articles and documents
Asymmetric conjugate reductions with samarium diiodide: Asymmetric synthesis of (2S,3R)- And (2S,3S)-[2-2H,3-2H]-leucine-(S)- phenylalanine dipeptides and (2S,3R)-[2-2H,3-2H]- phenylalanine methyl ester
Davies, Stephen G.,Rodriguez-Solla, Humberto,Tamayo, Juan A.,Cowley, Andrew R.,Concellon, Carmen,Garner, A. Christopher,Parkes, Alastair L.,Smith, Andrew D.
, p. 1435 - 1447 (2005)
The highly diastereoselective samarium diiodide and D2O-promoted conjugate reduction of homochiral (E)- and (Z)-benzylidene and isobutylidene diketopiperazines (E)-5,7 and (Z)-6,8 has been demonstrated. This methodology allows the asymmetric synthesis of methyl (2S,3R)-dideuteriophenylalanine 27 in ≥95% de and >98% ee, and (2S,3R)- or (2S,3S)-dideuterioleucine-(S)- phenylalanine dipeptides 37 and 38 in moderate de, 66% and 74% respectively. A mechanism is proposed to account for this process. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2005.
