Novel Method for Selective Debenzylation Under Maintenance of Fluoro Atom Substituted on β-Amino Acids

摘要

tert-Butyl (R)-3-amino-3-(3-fluorophenyl)propanoate(5) was prepared with conventional debenzylation method. However, the tert-butyl (R)-3-[(S)-1-phenylethyl-amino]-3-(3-fluorophenyl) propanoate(6) and tert-butyl (R)-3-amino-3-phenylpropanoate(7) were generated as the byproducts under the general catalytic hydrogenation Pd(OH)2/C-H2 conditions. So a series of experiments was performed to optimize the reaction conditions so that product 5 could be obtained with high purity and yield. Finally an effective catalytic system, Pd/C-HCOOH-CH3OH, was discovered.