Synthesis 2013; 45(7): 899-902
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1318272
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

A New Method for the Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure Betti Base

Guangling Bian
a   The Key Laboratory of Coal to Ethylene Glycol and Its Related Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(591)83722697   Email: songling@fjirsm.ac.cn
b   The State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China
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Shiwei Yang
a   The Key Laboratory of Coal to Ethylene Glycol and Its Related Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(591)83722697   Email: songling@fjirsm.ac.cn
b   The State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China
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Huayin Huang
a   The Key Laboratory of Coal to Ethylene Glycol and Its Related Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(591)83722697   Email: songling@fjirsm.ac.cn
b   The State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China
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Ling Song*
a   The Key Laboratory of Coal to Ethylene Glycol and Its Related Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(591)83722697   Email: songling@fjirsm.ac.cn
b   The State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. of China
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Publication History

Received: 22 November 2012

Accepted after revision: 30 January 2013

Publication Date:
13 February 2013 (online)


Abstract

We have developed a new method for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure Betti base. By using trifluoroacetic acid to replace the more traditionally used hydrochloride acid, the hydrolysis procedure used in the classical synthesis of racemic Betti base was carried out under milder conditions with an improved yield (up to 96%), which was followed by a new and efficient resolution with using recyclable (R)-1,1′-binaphthalene-2,2′-diyl sodium phosphate to provide enantiomerically pure (S)-Betti base in 95% yield with up to 99% ee and (R)-Betti base in 93% yield with 90% ee in one resolution step.

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