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Advances in the stereoselective synthesis of antifungal agents and ...

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Chapter 4 113separate (±)-57a <strong>and</strong> (±)-57c. Compounds (±)-57b <strong>and</strong> (±)-57d aresterically very h<strong>in</strong>dered <strong>and</strong> one hypo<strong>the</strong>sis was that two conformers wereseparated <strong>in</strong>stead <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two diastereoisomers. However 1H-NMR spectrarecorded <strong>in</strong> DMSO at high temperature did not show any <strong>in</strong>terconversionbetween <strong>the</strong> two separated species (+)-57b <strong>and</strong> (-)-57b <strong>and</strong> (+)-57d <strong>and</strong> (-)-57d were really pairs <strong>of</strong> diastereoisomers. Several attempts were made tocleave <strong>the</strong> amide bond <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> s<strong>in</strong>gle diastereoisomers <strong>in</strong> order to recover<strong>the</strong> s<strong>in</strong>gle enantiomers (+)34e or (-)-34e. All attempts were unsuccessful,<strong>and</strong> sometimes, due to <strong>the</strong> drastic conditions, <strong>the</strong> benzhydrylic proton wasracemized. The strategy was ab<strong>and</strong>oned because <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> meantime <strong>the</strong>racemization <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> benzyl product (-)-(S)-33e was observed dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>decarboxylation step <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> "Mitsunobu-hydrolysis-decarboxylation"methodology. It was not possible to overcome this problem.

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