Z-Tyr(Bzl)-OH → (N-benzyloxycarbonyl-O-benzyl-L-tyrosyl)-N-methyl-D-alanine methyl ester

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Diisopropylethylamine (1.29 g.), then diphenylphosphinic chloride (2.37 g.), were added to a solution of N-benzyloxycarbonyl-O-benzyl-L-tyrosine (4.05 g.) in tetrahydrofuran (30 ml.) maintained at -20° C., and the mixture was stirred at that temperature for 10 minutes. A solution of N-methyl-D-alanine methyl ester hydrobromide (1.98 g.) in tetrahydrofuran (20 ml.) was then added, followed by diisopropylethylamine (1.29 g.). The mixture was stirred for two hours at 0° C., then overnight at room temperature, then filtered, stripped of volatiles and distributed between ethyl acetate and aqueous citric acid (5%). The ethyl acetate layer was washed with water, saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate, water again and saturated aqueous sodium chloride, then dried over magnesium sulfate and concentrated to a yellow gum (about 6 g.). Purification of the yellow gum by high pressure liquid chromatography on silica gel (350 g.) using hexaneethyl acetate (7:3) as the eluant afforded (N-benzyloxycarbonyl-O-benzyl-L-tyrosyl)-N-methyl-D-alanine methyl ester as a clear gum (3.2 g.) containing about a one-sixth molar amount of ethyl acetate as shown by NMR spectral analysis.

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