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5-Chloro-8-nitro-1-naphthoyl (NNap): A Selective Protective Group for Amines and Amino Acids
Asmaa Habib1, José J Garrido-González1, Estela Sánchez-Santos1
1Organic Chemistry Department, University of Salamanca, Plaza de los Caídos s/n, Salamanca 37008, Spain.
Abstract:
The synthesis of 5-chloro-8-nitro-1-naphthoyl chloride and its use as a protective group for amines is described. Protection is carried out with an auxiliary amine or under mild Schotten-Baumann conditions in high yield (>86%), while deprotection can be achieved easily under gentle reducing conditions due to the large steric tension between C-1 and C-8 naphthalene substituents. The reaction has been successfully tested in dipeptide synthesis and amino alcohols protection, and it has proved selective for the ε-amine group of lysine.
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