A General Approach to the Aza-Diketomorpholine Scaffold

Org Lett. 2017 Feb 3;19(3):492-495. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b03656. Epub 2017 Jan 17.

Abstract

A stereoconservative three-step synthesis to access to 1,2,4-oxadiazine-3,6-dione is presented. This underexplored platform could be considered as a constrained oxy-azapeptide or an aza-diketomorpholine, the methodology being then successfully applied to produce enantiopure aza-analogs of diketomorpholine natural products. Importantly, the first crystal structures were obtained and compared to diketomorpholine and diketopiperazine structures. Finally, a straightforward procedure concerning the coupling of this heterocyclic scaffold with various amino acids to afford original pseudodipeptide analogs was described.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't