Hydrochloric Acid → N-(2-hydroxy-3-dodecyloxy)propyl-L-arginine hydrochloride

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L-arginine (17.4 g, 0.1 mols) was dissolved in 100 ml of water in a three-necked round flask, and 100 ml of i-propanol were added thereto. Then, 24.2 g (0.1 mols) of dodecylglycidyl ether (made by Sakamoto Yakuhin Kogyo Co., Ltd.) were added dropwise thereto over a period of 30 minutes while being heat-refluxed and stirred. Further, the mixture was stirred under reflux for 3 hours. It was determined through TLC and gas chromatography that dodecylglycidyl ether disappeared. Thereafter, the resulting mixture was neutralized with 10.1 g (0.1 mols) of 36% hydrochloric acid. The reaction solution was concentrated under reduced pressure, and the residue was purified through silica-gel column chromatography (Kieselgel 60 made by Merck & Co., Inc., eluent=mixture of chloroform, methanol and acetic acid at a ratio of 3:1:0.5) to give 15.0 g of N-(2-hydroxy-3-dodecyloxy)propyl-L-arginine hydrochloride (yield 36.0%).

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