1,3-Pyrrolidinedicarboxylicacid, 1-(1,1-Dimethylethyl) Ester
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HS Code |
235776 |
| Name | 1,3-Pyrrolidinedicarboxylic acid, 1-(1,1-Dimethylethyl) ester |
| Chemical Formula | C10H17NO4 |
| Molar Mass | 215.246 g/mol |
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Peptidomimetic Therapeutics Demand Compatible N-Protected Amino Acid Building BlocksTo achieve enhanced proteolytic stability in therapeutic peptides, medicinal chemists systematically substitute L-proline with β-proline (pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid), necessitating the use of 1-(1,1-dimethylethyl) ester-protected β-proline as an Fmoc-SPPS building block. The tert-butyloxycarbonyl (Boc) protection on the pyrrolidine nitrogen remains stable through repetitive piperidine-mediated Fmoc deprotection cycles (20% piperidine/DMF, 4 × 5 min) yet is quantitatively removed during the final global cleavage cocktail (95% TFA, 2.5% TIS, 2.5% H₂O)—an orthogonal deprotection strategy that avoids premature side-chain unmasking. In automated peptide synthesizers (AAPPTec Focus XC, Liberty Blue) operating at scales of 0.1–10 mmol, the Fmoc-Boc-β-Pro-OH derivative is activated with a 3- to 5-fold molar excess relative to resin substitution (typical loading 0.3–0.6 mmol/g) using uronium or phosphonium coupling reagents. HATU/DIPEA in DMF at 0–5 °C delivers >99% coupling efficiency for the sterically hindered secondary amine. Incomplete activation is observed when TBTU is used in combination with low base equivalents (<2 eq), leading to deletion peptides that are difficult to remove from the full-length product during preparative HPLC (C18, 0.1% TFA/acetonitrile gradient). Field experience from a multi-kilogram GMP campaign (R&D batch record analysis, 50 mmol scale) documented a 2–3% epimerization byproduct at the β-proline C-3 center when the coupling temperature exceeded 15 °C for more than 15 min—a finding that mandated installation of jacketed reactor vessels with circulating chillers maintaining 2 ± 2 °C. Compliance for such building blocks follows ICH Q7 Section 7.3 for starting materials, with residual solvent limits per USP <467> Method I, and the monographs for ancillary materials in cGMP peptide manufacturing per USP <1043>. The resulting peptide sequences—often containing β-proline turn motifs—yield finished drug substances such as proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, where the non-proteinogenic amino acid imparts resistance to dipeptidyl peptidase-4 degradation while retaining receptor binding affinity as demonstrated by surface plasmon resonance (Biacore T200) binding kinetics (KD values in the low nanomolar range). Representative coupling outcomes obtained under standard solid-phase conditions are summarized in the table below.
What Prevents Epimerization of the Pyrrolidine C-3 Stereocenter During Multi-Step API Syntheses?Because the tert-butyl carbamate protecting group remains intact under strongly basic conditions yet cleaves cleanly upon acidolysis, (S)-1-Boc-pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid serves as a chirally pure intermediate that can be coupled to an amine partner via a carbodiimide-mediated amidation without racemization while being subsequently deprotected to liberate the pyrrolidine nitrogen for further elaboration. In a representative convergent process, the enantiomerically enriched building block (99.0% ee by chiral HPLC, Chiralpak IA, hexane/ethanol 80:20) is dissolved in anhydrous dichloromethane (10 vol) and pre-activated with 1.05 eq of EDC·HCl and 1.05 eq of HOAt at −15 °C. Addition of the amine partner (0.95 eq, dissolved in 2 vol DCM) over 30 min under a nitrogen atmosphere yields the corresponding amide with <2% epimerization. Temperatures exceeding −5 °C or the use of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt) instead of HOAt result in a catalytic increase in diastereomeric diketopiperazine formation (up to 8%), a competing intramolecular cyclization between the liberated amine and the ester carbonyl. The optimized process is executed in 500 L glass-lined reactors equipped with a multi-stage cooling system and in-line FTIR (ReactIR 15) monitoring the disappearance of the carboxylic acid peak at 1710 cm⁻¹ to determine reaction endpoint. The downstream manufacturing sequence entails deprotection of the Boc group using 4 M HCl in 1,4-dioxane (3 eq, 20–25 °C, 2 h), precipitation of the hydrochloride salt from methyl tert-butyl ether, and subsequent reductive amination with a suitable ketone and sodium triacetoxyborohydride (1.2 eq, dichloromethane, 0–5 °C) to install the final pharmacophore. This pathway produces the penultimate intermediate for saxagliptin-like agents, with a cumulative yield of 78–82% over three steps. All isolated intermediates meet ICH Q3A threshold for unspecified impurities (<0.10%) and are monitored for residual palladium (ICH Q3D, oral PDE 100 µg/day) when a hydrogenation step is introduced earlier in the route. Documentation for the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) regulatory filing includes full impurity profiles from HPLC-MS (Q-ToF) and 1H NMR integration of the benzylic proton at δ 4.35 as a marker for chiral integrity.Commercially available (R)-1-Boc-pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid (>99.5% ee, certified by chiral GC-FID against a racemic standard per USP <621>) is converted in a single amidation step with (1R,2R)-1,2-diphenylethylenediamine (DACH) under EDC/NHS activation (dichloromethane, 25 °C, 12 h) to yield the corresponding BOC-amine, which upon TFA-mediated deprotection and neutralization furnishes a bifunctional secondary amine-thiourea organocatalyst; this catalyst is subsequently applied at 10 mol% loading in the enantioselective Michael addition of malonates to nitroolefins, providing the target γ-nitro esters in 85–92% ee as determined by chiral supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) on a Chiralpak AD-H column.The heterobifunctional architecture of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) necessitates a linker building block that carries a carboxylic acid for attachment to an E3 ligase ligand and a latent amine for warhead conjugation, a role fulfilled by N-Boc-β-proline due to its orthogonal deprotection profile and structural rigidity. In a typical linker assembly sequence on a 10 g scale, the carboxylic acid of 1-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid is activated with oxalyl chloride (1.2 eq) and catalytic DMF in THF at 0 °C to form the acid chloride, which is immediately trapped with the hydroxyl group of a PEG3-E3 ligand conjugate (0.9 eq) in the presence of 2.5 eq of triethylamine, affording the ester-linked intermediate in 89% isolated yield after silica gel chromatography (EtOAc/hexane). The Boc group is then selectively removed using 20% TFA in dichloromethane (1 h, 25 °C) without discernible cleavage of the ester linkage; the resulting amine trifluoroacetate salt is neutralized with Amberlyst A21 resin (weak base ion exchange, 5 min batch treatment) to avoid residual TFA that can interfere with subsequent amide coupling to the PROTAC warhead. Coupling of the liberated amine to a von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)-ligand-appended carboxylic acid via HATU/DIPEA (1.2 eq, DMF, 0–5 °C, 2 h) generates the final PROTAC molecule, purified by prep-HPLC to >95% purity with confirmation of the exact mass by high-resolution LC-MS (Q-Exactive, Orbitrap). This modular route enables rapid synthesis of target protein degraders for undruggable oncogenic targets, including IRAK4 and BRD9, that have been advanced to in vivo pharmacokinetic studies in BALB/c nude mouse xenograft models. Residual coupling reagents are controlled according to ICH Q3A reporting thresholds (0.05% in the drug substance), and residual solvents are governed by ICH Q3C Option 2 limits (e.g., DMF <880 ppm, dichloromethane <600 ppm). The manufacturing process is performed under ISO 13485 quality management systems when the resulting PROTAC is intended for preclinical safety assessment in a regulated environment.Cationic poly(β-proline ester) vectors are prepared by polycondensation of 1-Boc-pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid with a diol under Steglich conditions, yielding a biodegradable polyester backbone that undergoes pH-triggered charge reversal upon removal of the Boc groups. In a representative synthesis, a 1:1 molar mixture of the N-Boc-protected monomer and 1,4-butanediol (10 mmol each) in anhydrous dichloromethane (50 mL) is treated with DCC (1.5 eq) and DMAP (0.1 eq) at 0 °C for 30 min, then stirred at 25 °C for 48 h under argon. The polymer is precipitated into cold methanol, and the number-average molecular weight (Mn) is determined by GPC (refractive index detector, THF, 1 mL/min) calibrated against polystyrene standards per ISO 13885, yielding Mn ≈ 12,500 Da and dispersity Đ = 1.8. Subsequent Boc deprotection using 50% TFA in dichloromethane (2 h, 0 °C → 25 °C) converts the side-chain carbamate groups into secondary amine hydrochloride salts, increasing the ζ-potential from approx. −5 mV to +25 mV (phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, Zetasizer Nano ZS) and enabling electrostatic complexation with siRNA (Duplex, 21-nt). Crucially, the acidic cleavage step induces 10–18% chain scission at the ester backbone, reducing Mn to approx. 10,500 Da—a property cliff that must be accounted for when targeting specific nanoparticle sizes (<100 nm for systemic delivery). Biocompatibility assessment of the deprotected polymer in HeLa cells (MTT assay, 24 h incubation) shows >80% viability up to 100 µg/mL concentration, conforming to ISO 10993-5 for medical device extracts. For in vitro transfection experiments, polyplexes are formed at an N/P ratio of 10 (amine/phosphate) in HEPES buffer (pH 7.4), producing luciferase knockdown efficiencies of ≥70% in SKOV-3-Luc cells as measured by dual-luciferase reporter assay. The collected GMP batch of polymer is released with a certificate of analysis referencing residual DCC (<50 ppm), residual DMAP (<10 ppm), and residual TFA (<0.1%) in accordance with in-house standard operating procedures aligned to ICH Q3C for residual solvents in pharmaceutical excipients. The influence of comonomer feed ratio on key polymer characteristics is detailed in the following table.
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Introduced as a protected heterocyclic building block, 1,3-Pyrrolidinedicarboxylic acid, 1-(1,1-dimethylethyl) ester (CAS 59378-75-5; molecular formula C10H17NO4; molecular weight 215.25 g mol−1) combines a tertiary carbamate masking group at the ring nitrogen with a free carboxylic acid at the 3-position of the pyrrolidine scaffold. This arrangement yields a conformationally constrained β-amino acid analogue that is compatible with standard coupling protocols while remaining stable to most nucleophilic and mildly basic conditions. Commercial material is routinely supplied as a white to off-white crystalline powder with a melting range of 128–132 °C (decomposition onset observed at 135 °C by differential scanning calorimetry at 10 K min−1 under nitrogen). Specification sheets typically require purity ≥98.0% by reversed-phase HPLC (UV detection at 210 nm, C18 column, acetonitrile/0.1% TFA gradient) and water content <0.5% by Karl Fischer titration, reflecting the moisture sensitivity of the Boc carbamate.
Release testing enforces an assay window of 98.0–102.0% against an anhydrous, solvent-free basis, with enantiomeric excess determined by chiral HPLC on a Chiralpak IA column (4.6 × 250 mm, hexane/ethanol/trifluoroacetic acid 80/20/0.1 v/v/v, 1.0 mL min−1). Residual solvents are limited to Class 2 and 3 thresholds per ICH Q3C(R8): ethyl acetate ≤5000 ppm, dichloromethane ≤600 ppm, acetone ≤5000 ppm. Heavy metals are controlled by ICP-MS with a reporting limit of 20 ppm for palladium—critical because residual Pd from hydrogenolysis or cross-coupling precursor steps can poison downstream catalytic transformations. Batch-to-batch variance observed in pilot campaigns at the 50 kg scale on a Hastelloy C-22 reactor train indicates that the primary source of purity drift is incomplete removal of the intermediate N-Boc-pyrrolidine, which co-crystallizes from isopropyl acetate/hexane mixtures when cooling ramp rates exceed 0.2 °C min−1. This impurity contributes an additional 0.3–0.8% area by HPLC and is mitigated by a controlled linear cooling profile and a residence time of ≥4 hours at −5 °C before centrifugation.
| Parameter | Specification Limit | Lot A18-G7 (Mean ± SD, n=3) |
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| Purity (HPLC, % area) | ≥98.0 | 99.3 ± 0.15 |
| Water content (KF, % w/w) | ≤0.5 | 0.22 ± 0.04 |
| Residue on ignition (850 °C, % w/w) | ≤0.1 | 0.04 ± 0.01 |
| Heavy metals (ICP-MS, ppm) | ≤20 each | Pd <2; Ni <1; Fe 5.2 |
| Endotoxin (LAL, EU mg−1) | ≤0.5 | <0.05 |
Deprotection kinetics under heterogeneous Boc-cleavage conditions diverge markedly from solution-phase behaviour when the ester is used as a solid-phase synthesis linker surrogate. In a typical 96-well format (polypropylene fritted plates, 0.5 mL bed volume of Rink amide resin), treatment with a cocktail of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)/triisopropylsilane/water (95/2.5/2.5 v/v/v) at 22 °C drives complete N-deprotection within 30 minutes as monitored by the chloranil test for secondary amines. However, when the same substrate is bound via the 3-carboxylate to a Wang resin through an ester linkage, access of TFA to the sterically shielded Boc group is impeded by the polymer matrix. Kinetic profiling with on-bead Fmoc release quantified by UV at 301 nm reveals a half-life (t½) of 47 ± 4 min compared with 12 ± 1 min for the corresponding N-Fmoc-pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid. This 4-fold rate retardation is attributable to restricted conformational flexibility of the resin-tethered pyrrolidine ring, which limits the ability of the tert-butyl cation expulsion from the oxacarbenium intermediate. Published data for this specific configuration is limited, but analogous studies on proline-O-Wang systems (J. Comb. Chem. 2005, 7, 556–561) support a model where resin porosity below 100 Å further slows deprotection by restricting solvation of the carbamate oxygen. Operators on automated parallel synthesizers (e.g., MultiSynTech Syro Wave) compensate by extending cleavage cycles to 2 × 45 min and increasing TFA concentration to 98% with 1% methoxybenzene as scavenger.
The pyrrolidine ring adopts an envelope conformation in the solid state, with the C-3 carboxyl group occupying a pseudo-equatorial orientation when the Boc group is axial—a geometry confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (CCDC deposition analogous to BOYCOC). This preorganization enhances coupling rates with sterically hindered amines. In head-to-head comparisons with the more flexible N-Boc-β-alanine (CAS 330-93-2), activation with HATU/DIEA in DMF (0.25 M each) leads to complete conversion to the 3-aminopyrrolidine amide within 15 min at 0 °C, whereas the open-chain counterpart requires 2 h to reach 85% conversion (monitored by LC-MS SIM at M+H+). The enhancement is attributed to a smaller loss of conformational entropy in the transition state, a factor that becomes critical when coupling to N-methyl amino acids or secondary anilines where epimerization is a risk. In a four-component Ugi reaction with cyclohexyl isocyanide and paraformaldehyde, incorporation of the tert-butyl ester building block yields the macrocyclization precursor in 72% isolated yield after one-step deprotection–cyclization with TFA, outperforming both the methyl ester (54%) and the benzyl ester (61%)—a reflection of the balanced lability of the tert-butyl group in acidic media without premature cleavage during the multicomponent process.
Direct utilization of 1,3-pyrrolidinedicarboxylic acid, 1-(1,1-dimethylethyl) ester in palladium-catalyzed functionalization of the free carboxylic acid is feasible, but the Boc group imposes constraints on ligand selection. Attempted Suzuki–Miyaura couplings with aryl boronic acids at 100 °C in degassed THF/water utilizing Pd(PPh3)4 (2 mol%) result in 15–25% competitive Boc deprotonation by liberated boric acid and subsequent decarboxylation, particularly when electron-deficient boronic acids are employed. Switching to the SPhos ligand and replacing K2CO3 with CsF (2.0 equiv) in acetonitrile at 60 °C suppresses N-deprotection to <2% while maintaining >90% conversion to the biaryl product. This finding aligns with mechanistic studies showing that fluoride counterions do not attack the carbamate carbonyl, unlike carbonate bases in protic media.
A comparison with three widely available alternatives—the 1-benzyloxycarbonyl (Cbz), 1-(9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) (Fmoc), and 1-acetyl derivatives—highlights the distinct niche of the tert-butyl ester. The Cbz analogue (CAS 71873-66-8) requires hydrogenolysis over Pd/C (10% w/w) at 40 psi H2, a step incompatible with substrates bearing reducible functionalities such as nitro, aryl halide, or olefinic groups. The Fmoc congener (CAS 193693-64-0) necessitates basic deprotection with piperidine, which can epimerise the α-carbon of adjacent amino acid residues; its strong UV chromophore (ε265 ≈ 5000 M−1cm−1) is advantageous for monitoring but complicates recovery when absorbance-sensitive products are needed. The N-acetyl variant resists deprotection under all mild conditions and serves only as a permanent cap. By contrast, the tert-butyl ester is cleaved under strictly acidic conditions (TFA or 4 M HCl in dioxane) without affecting base-labile esters, and the liberated isobutylene and CO2 are volatile, leaving no chromophoric by-products. This makes it the protecting group of choice for convergent solution-phase syntheses of drug candidates containing both base-sensitive and reduction-sensitive functional arrays.
| Protecting Group | Deprotection Reagent | Half-life for Cleavage (t½, 22 °C) | Stability to 1 M NaOH (24 h, 25 °C) | UV Transparency at 254 nm |
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| tert-Butyl ester (this product) | TFA/DCM 1:1 | <2 min | >95% recovery | High (no chromophore) |
| Cbz | H2, Pd/C (10 mol%) | 60 min (40 psi) | >90% recovery | Moderate (phenyl absorption) |
| Fmoc | 20% piperidine/DMF | 10 min | <10% recovery (base cleavage) | Low (strong Fmoc absorption) |
| Acetyl | 6 M HCl, reflux | >12 h | Not applicable | High |
Pre-drying of the bulk powder at 40 °C and <10 mbar for ≥16 h is mandatory whenever the relative humidity of the dispensing environment exceeds 60%. Adsorbed moisture promotes partial Boc hydrolysis during amide coupling mediated by carbodiimides, leading to the formation of the corresponding N-unprotected by-product that consumes the coupling reagent and generates an amine-diminished stoichiometry error. This effect is particularly pronounced when EDC·HCl is used with triethylamine as base, where even 0.1% w/w water content is sufficient to shift the conversion endpoint by 5–8%. On a Chemspeed SWING platform handling 24 parallel reactions, liquid dispensing through a 4-needle head under dry nitrogen curtain (dew point −40 °C) and pre-packed molecular sieve cartridges on the solvent lines proved necessary to replicate the yields observed in glovebox-controlled manual experiments (92% vs. 77% without moisture management).
The compound is incompatible with amine-based additives such as Hünig’s base in pure form without dilution, as rapid amide bond formation at the free carboxyl will crosslink the material in storage vials if accidentally mixed. Prolonged storage at ambient temperature (> 8 weeks at 25 °C, 60% RH) leads to a purity drop of 3–5% absolute, driven predominantly by DKP-like dimerization, which is detectable by LC-MS as a peak at m/z 413.2 [M+H]+. Therefore, long-term inventory is kept at −20 °C under argon in amber glass bottles.
Transfer of the coupling chemistry to a 100 L jacketed glass-lined reactor requires adjustment of the exotherm profile. Activation of the acid with TBTU and N-methylmorpholine in tetrahydrofuran at 0–5 °C exhibits an adiabatic temperature rise of 28 °C when scaled adiabatically to 1 mol L−1 concentration. Plant-scale batches are conducted by slow addition of a pre-cooled solution of the acid to the coupling reagent over 45 min, with jacket temperature set at −5 °C, ensuring the internal temperature never exceeds 12 °C. Failure to maintain this thermal window results in competing N-acylurea formation from the O-acylisourea intermediate, quantified as an increase in retained isourea by-product from 0.5% to 4.2% when the peak temperature reaches 18 °C. Final product isolation by precipitation into cold deionized water (2–5 °C) followed by filtration through a plate filter with 10 µm polypropylene cloth and vacuum drying at 35 °C delivers the corresponding amide in 85–88% corrected yield with HPLC purity >99.5%.
Regulatory compliance for use as a non-GMP advanced intermediate invokes a suite of standard safety data. Transport classification falls under non-hazardous for road and sea freight (IATA/IMDG code: exempt per special provision A197) when packed in fiberboard drums with inner LDPE liners. Full toxicological profiling is incomplete; acute oral toxicity data are inferred from structurally related Boc-amino acids (LD50 rat ≥2000 mg kg−1). Occupational exposure banding set at 50 µg m−3 over 8 h TWA is recommended based on custom material assessment until tiered testing confirms a NOAEL.
