Improved Methodology for the Preparation of Chiral Amines
Improved Methodology for the Preparation of Chiral Amines
Improved Methodology for the Preparation of Chiral Amines
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Scheme 4.2. Syn<strong>the</strong>sis <strong>of</strong> Muraglitazar.<br />
4.1.3. Syn<strong>the</strong>sis <strong>of</strong> Amphetamine:<br />
Amphetamines syn<strong>the</strong>sis is one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> well known classical examples <strong>of</strong> drugs syn<strong>the</strong>sised<br />
utilising reductive amination. [2] O<strong>the</strong>r methodologies were also developed <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong>re syn<strong>the</strong>sis<br />
as <strong>the</strong> direct displacement <strong>of</strong> a leaving group by an amine, nitro alkane addition followed by<br />
reduction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nitro group and metal-promoted amination <strong>of</strong> an unsaturated carbon<br />
compound. The reductive amination <strong>of</strong> methyl benzyl ketone was one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> earliest<br />
strategies used in amphetamine syn<strong>the</strong>sis. Despite being developed in <strong>the</strong> thirties <strong>of</strong> last<br />
century it continues to be one <strong>the</strong> best developed methodologies because <strong>of</strong> its simple<br />
elegance and <strong>the</strong> availability <strong>of</strong> cheap starting materials.<br />
According to <strong>the</strong> developed methodology, oxime is <strong>for</strong>med as a mixture <strong>of</strong> isomers upon<br />
exposure <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ketone to hydroxylamine hydrochloride under mildly basic conditions.<br />
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