Ethyl alpha-oxobenzenebutanoate → Ammonium Hydroxide

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Dissolve the 7-[(S)-alanyl]-1,4-dithia-7-azaspiro-[4.4]nonane-8(S)-carboxylic acid, hydrobromide (prepared in paragraph E next above) in 100 ml of absolute methanol. Add 0.5 g of 2-oxo-4-phenylbutyric acid, ethyl ester and 10 ml of 3° A. molecular sieve pellets and stir the mixture at room temperature for eighteen hours. Filter the reaction mixture and treat the filtrate with 0.30 g of sodium cyanoborohydride at room temperature for two hours. Concentrate the mixture under nitrogen and dilute the oil with 5% hydrochloric acid to pH 2 to 4 and stir at room temperature for one hour. Adjust the pH of the solution to pH 8 with 2.5N sodium hydroxide solution and absorbed the solution in 150 ml of a XAD-2 resin. Elute the resin with 800 ml of water and then with 800 ml of methanol. Concentrate the methanol solution, place the residue on a column of silica gel (100 g, 60-200 mesh) and elute with chloroform:isopropanol: 7% ammonium hydroxide 1:1:1 (organic layer) to obtain 7-[N-(1-carboethoxy-3-phenylpropyl)-(S)-alanyl]-1,4-dithia-7-azaspiro[4.4]nonane-8(S)-carboxylic acid, a white solid, m.p. 56°-60° C., [α]D26 -25.5° (ethanol).

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