Introduction t-Butylamine is a versatile and important building block for compounds with biological activities. Finasteride, a 5a-reductase inhibitor for use in treating acne, female hirsutism and benign prostatic hyperplasia, was prepared by the reaction of the carboxylate of 4-aza-5a-androst -1-ene-3-one with t-butylamine.
1It was also built into an apoptosis inhibitor, 2 an HIV protease inhibitor, 3 various antibotics 4 and nucleosides. 5 Moreover t-butylamine residues are commonly in adrenergic drugs to increase affinity for b-adrenoceptors.
6-8Here we describe an efficient synthesis of [15 N]t-butylamine hydrochloride, which can be used as biomarker for biologically active compounds containing this motif or incorporated in the synthesis of drug candidates for use as analytical internal standards or for metabolic studies. H-NMR (400 MHz) and 13 C-NMR (100 MHz) spectra were recorded on a JNM-ECA-400 NMR spectrometer in CDCl 3 or DMSO-d 6 (TMS as internal standard). FT-IR spectra were recorded on a Nicolet FT-IR 5700 spectrometer using KBr pellets. EI-MS Spectra were obtained with ZAB-HS spectrometer. : 3390, 3199, 2961, 2923, 2756, 1648, 1485, 1455, 1408, 1376, 1356, 1221, 1103, 863, 816, 732, 615 45 mmol) in DMF (8 mL), followed by the addition of a solution of NBS (0.48 g, 2.7 mmol) in DMF (2 mL) at room temperature under nitrogen. After reaction at this temperature for 30 h, the reaction mixture was poured into water and extracted with CH 2 Cl 2 (15 mL Â 3). The combined extracts were washed with water, saturated NaHCO 3 , dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and evaporated. The crude product was purified by flash chromatography (petroleum ether: ethyl 3341, 2969, 1713, 1498, 1454, 1394, 1365, 1266, 1210, 1072, 914, 776, 738, 696
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