Reaction #1702089

Reaction equation

trans-4-methyl-cyclohexanecarbonyl chloride

trans-3-[(3-benzyloxy-cyclobutyl)-(4-methyl-cyclohexanecarbonyl)-amino]-5-(3,3-dimethyl-but-1-ynyl)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester

3-(3-Benzyloxy-cyclobutylamino)-5-(3,3-dimethyl-but-1-ynyl)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester

N,N-diisopropylethylamine

→

cis-3-[(3-benzyloxy-cyclobutyl)-(4-methyl-cyclohexanecarbonyl)-amino]-5-(3,3-dimethyl-but-1-ynyl)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester

Solvents

DCE

Conditions

Workup

1. 1
   TemperatureThe reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature
2. 2
   Otherpurified by silica gel chromatography (0-30% ethyl acetate:hexanes)

Procedure

A mixture of 3-(3-Benzyloxy-cyclobutylamino)-5-(3,3-dimethyl-but-1-ynyl)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester (1.26 g, 3.17 mmol) and N,N-diisopropylethylamine (2.4 mL, 13.8 mmol) in DCE (8 mL) was treated with trans-4-methyl-cyclohexanecarbonyl chloride and heated to 100° C. for 5 hours. The reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature, adsorbed onto silica, and purified by silica gel chromatography (0-30% ethyl acetate:hexanes). This resulted in 590 mg (36% yield) of cis-cyclobutyl isomer (cis-3-[(3-benzyloxy-cyclobutyl)-(4-methyl-cyclohexanecarbonyl)-amino]-5-(3,3-dimethyl-but-1-ynyl)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester) and 230 mg (14% yield) of the trans-cyclobutyl isomer (trans-3-[(3-benzyloxy-cyclobutyl)-(4-methyl-cyclohexanecarbonyl)-amino]-5-(3,3-dimethyl-but-1-ynyl)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester).

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