Hydrochloric Acid → Boc-cyclohexylalanine

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Boc-cyclohexylalanine-dicyclohexylamine salt (0.497 g, 1.1 mmol) was added to a mixture of ethyl acetate (25 ml) and 0.5 N HCl (25 ml) for 30 minutes. The ethyl acetate layer was separated, washed with water (3×100 ml), dried over MgSO4 and evaporated to give the Boc-cyclohexylalanine free acid (1.1 mmol). The acid was dissolved in THF (25 ml) and cooled to 5° C. under N2. The acid was converted into a mixed anhydride by treatment with N-methyl morpholine (110 μl, 1 mmol) and isobutylchloroformate (130 μl, 1 mmol). After stirring for 20 minutes, a solution of a (±)trans-[1H-imidazol-4-yl]-cyclopropylamine and (200 mgs, 1 mmol) and triethylamine (284 ul, 2 mmol) in water (2 ml) was added. After 2 hours, the reaction mixture was partioned between ethyl acetate (50 ml) and water (50 ml), the ethyl acetate layer was washed with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution, water, then dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated in vacuo to give the BOC-protected derivatives. The BOC group was deprotected by treating the crude amides directly with trifluoroacetic acid (5 ml) for 30 minutes at room temperature. The TFA was evaporated and the residue triturated with ether to provide the di-trifluoroacetic acid salt of the diastereisomeric mixture of (1R,2R)-trans-2-(S)-amino-3-cyclohexyl-N-(2-imidazol-4-ylcyclopropyl)propanamide and (1S,2S)-trans-2-(S)-amino-3-cyclohexyl-N-(2-imidazol-4-ylcyclopropyl)propanamide (300 mgs). The diastereoisomers were separated using reverse phase HPLC.

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