Synthesis 2017; 49(05): 987-997
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1588617
short review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Stereoselective Synthesis of α-Amino-H-phosphinic Acids and Derivatives

Mario Ordóñez*
a   Centro de Investigaciones Químicas-IICBA, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad 1001, 62209 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico   Email: palacios@uaem.mx
,
José Luis Viveros-Ceballos
b   Secretaría Académica, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad 1001, 62209 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
,
Francisco J. Sayago
c   Departamento de Química Orgánica, ISQCH, Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain   Email: cativiela@unizar.es
,
Carlos Cativiela*
c   Departamento de Química Orgánica, ISQCH, Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain   Email: cativiela@unizar.es
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Publication History

Received: 06 August 2016

Accepted after revision: 07 September 2016

Publication Date:
18 October 2016 (online)


Abstract

α-Amino-H-phosphinic acids and derivatives are an important group of compounds of synthetic and pharmacological interest, and particular attention has been dedicated toward their stereoselective synthesis in recent years. While some of these compounds show activity by themselves, they are also valuable starting materials in the synthesis of phosphinic bioisosteres of natural peptides, where the hydrolyzable bond is substituted by a phosphinic functionality that mimics the transition state of peptide hydrolysis, thus acting as efficient enzyme­ inhibitors in which the molecular stereochemistry is demonstrated to be critical. This review summarizes the latest developments on the asymmetric synthesis of acyclic and phosphacyclic α-amino-H-phosphinic acids and derivatives following an order according to the strategy used; in addition, some implications in medicinal chemistry are disclosed.

1 Introduction

2 Stereoselective Synthesis of Acyclic α-Amino-H-phosphinic Acids and Derivatives

2.1 Stereoselective C–P Bond Formation (Addition of Phosphorus Compounds to Imines)

2.1.1 Chiral Imine Compounds

2.2 Stereoselective C–P Bond Formation (One-Pot, Three-Component Reaction)

2.2.1 Chiral Amino Compounds

2.3 Stereoselective C–C Bond Formation

2.3.1 Diastereoselective Alkylations

2.4 Resolution Methodologies

2.5 Conversion from Chiral α-Aminophosphonates

3 Synthesis of Phosphacyclic α-Amino-H-phosphinates

3.1 1,4,2-Oxazaphosphacycles

4 Concluding Remarks