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OTC Amine protection?
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to protect an amino acid's amine from forming an amide. Unfortunately the textbook protecting groups (Boc, Cbz) seem a bit hard
to get ahold of if one doesn't have chlorination reagents (to make BocCl or CbzCl or Boc Anhydride for example).
Are there any OTC amine protection methods I could employ here?
Thanks,
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EverythingAl2O3
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Are trying to protect a primary or secondary amine? What conditions will your reactant undergo? If it is a secondary it might be possible to protect
it with a benzyl group via Sn2 with benzyl chloride. I don't know how reversible benzyl groups with hydrolysis of amines, but they tend to be willing
to form carbocations and have the double bonds to help push off the positively charged amine salt. Though that is just conjecture for what might be
more available option, because you'd just need benzyl alcohol and HCl to form benzyl chloride. My reasoning for mentioning it is this statement from
benzylamine wikipedia
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Benzylamine is used as a masked source of ammonia, since after N-alkylation, the benzyl group can be removed by hydrogenolysis
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So hydrogenolysis would probably work here, but again I don't know if there would be an easier method.
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Quote: Originally posted by EverythingAl2O3  | Are trying to protect a primary or secondary amine? What conditions will your reactant undergo? If it is a secondary it might be possible to protect
it with a benzyl group via Sn2 with benzyl chloride. I don't know how reversible benzyl groups with hydrolysis of amines, but they tend to be willing
to form carbocations and have the double bonds to help push off the positively charged amine salt. Though that is just conjecture for what might be
more available option, because you'd just need benzyl alcohol and HCl to form benzyl chloride. My reasoning for mentioning it is this statement from
benzylamine wikipedia
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Benzylamine is used as a masked source of ammonia, since after N-alkylation, the benzyl group can be removed by hydrogenolysis
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So hydrogenolysis would probably work here, but again I don't know if there would be an easier method. |
Sorry I should have been more specific -- I'm trying to protect lysine's amines. The end goal is an amide bond to lysine. That might be a good idea if
deprotection won't destroy my final product -- I'd have to think about that.
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First I should mention that lisdexamfetamine isn't my desired final product here, nor is my final product a scheduled substance, and nor do I plan on
distributing it. My purposes here are purely investigative.
Second, I wouldn't say the chemistry here is particularly difficult. Without using coupling reagents like DCC etc, it should be as easy as 1.
protecting the amine groups, 2. esterifying the lysine to produce a good LG, 3. react to form amide, and 4. deprotecting. What is difficult
is the aquisition of the required reagents here. And I should note that it's not difficult to aquire these reagents due to any sort of DEA
restrictions, but because the average person has little use for amine protection reagents.
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Are you trying to make lysinamide as an intermediate? If so you don't need to protect the amino group, you can esterify the lysine with alcohol + HCl
gas and then treat the ester hydrochloride with excess ammonia I am pretty sure I have seen this method described somewhere when I was looking into
the preparation of hydantoin and thiohydantoin.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Boffis | | Are you trying to make lysinamide as an intermediate? If so you don't need to protect the amino group, you can esterify the lysine with alcohol + HCl
gas and then treat the ester hydrochloride with excess ammonia I am pretty sure I have seen this method described somewhere when I was looking into
the preparation of hydantoin and thiohydantoin. |
No, I was planning on going to the hydroxy succinamide ester (CAS #34404-36-9). But there's a thought!
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Have you looked into the TosCl? That can be made pretty easily from toluene and sulfurly chloride(sulfur dioxide and chlorine). It doesn't seem like a
bad protecting group to me.
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^refs for prep of TsCl from SO2Cl2 and PhMe?
OP's problem is quite subtle: he wants to protect lysine's amines in such a way that they won't be attacked by an acylating agent, and he wants to
deprotect them without cleaving his amide bond. karlos3 is right; you should listen to him. This is not an easy problem.
One possible strategy is to try to form the cyclic sulfur diimide (specifically, a 2,1,3-thiodiazocane) by reaction of a lysine ester with SCl2. If
successful, this should allow for a fully orthogonal deprotection by reduction, and there are plenty of people here who have made SCl2 from OTC
materials. Beware of H2S! 
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Oh, I got that synthesis from Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. On page ten of the section on benzenesulfonic acid derivatives, it says
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Other chlorinating agents, such as phosgene, thionyl chloride, sulfuryl chloride, or phosphorus pentachloride, can be used instead of chlorosulfuric
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[Edit: If anyone needs some information from Ullmann's, PM me and I'll send you my pdf]
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Don't know what your product is. But, Carlos may be on the right track. Benzylamines can be cleaved by hydrogenation. Not much chance, peptide
linkages will be damaged.
Got an interesting alanine protection, I first saw yesterday. Probably useless, but interesting.
https://erowid.org/references/texts/show/6516docid6045
You can't easily buy any of those Chlorinating Agents, but some can be made. At least, they can be easily made if you have SCl2... Which Doug's Lab,
has provided instructions for making. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYw89ieffa4&t=23s
Oh, yeah. One of our members has posted a procedure for Thionyl Chloride. Top of the page.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=78...
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