i saw someone is asking about L-tryptophan decarboxylation.
so i think Phenylalanine can do decarboxylation too...
my problem is what solvent should i use??
(i am sorry about my eng is so bad MeshPL - 27-9-2015 at 07:06
Preferably one that has a high boiling point, is liquid in room temperature and dissolves phenylalanine. And doesn't react with it. So not a
haloalkane.
DMSO, or higher ethers may be good. (Not diethyl ether, that boils 35C or so, rather biphenyl, dibuthyl ethers)
Note that you're not guaranteed to succeed. You may try converting phelylalanine to it's copper salt first. Decarboxylation is not an easy thing. If
phenylethylamine is not too unstable you may just pyrolyse phenylalanine.
Try using the same methods as described for that decarboxylation of tryptophan.
There is also Barton decarboxylation, but it requires organotin compounds, radical initiation and complex hetrocyclic reagent to work.
Hope you're not attempting to make drugs.morsagh - 27-9-2015 at 09:50
Problem is also that alpha-aminoacids can lose water before decarboxylation and produce 3,6-substituted 2,5-dioxopiperazine.morganbw - 28-9-2015 at 05:24
I am just a little lost on what your are after but if you
use this search phrase in google, it will lead to quite a few hits.
It will at least give you something to read.
Leave the quotation marks off.
[Edited on 28-9-2015 by morganbw]fluorescence - 28-9-2015 at 05:43
Reaxys suggests using Cyclohexenon as solvent and catalyst, heating it to about 150°C for about an hour.
At least if you want to make Phenylethylamine from it. The following Paper is added: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cl1972/15/6/15_6_893/_a...
Haven't had time to download that Paper yet, but give it a try it might contain what you are looking for.
Dunno Reaxys sometimes calculates this stuff from other Educts and just assumes it would do the same
so unless it's not in Literature I wouldn't do it, but that Method using Cyclohexenon seems quite good
and is a quite new Article from 2006.
i saw someone is asking about L-tryptophan decarboxylation.
so i think Phenylalanine can do decarboxylation too...
my problem is what solvent should i use??
(i am sorry about my eng is so bad;)
From what I've read in the older literature the decarboxylation of PhAl. is a pyroletic degredation requiring no solvents. Just a distillation setup
to condense the 2- phenylethylamine. However, as one who appreciates the chemistry 2-PEA liquid is available on ebay. 4 oz. USP grade 65 samolies.AvBaeyer - 21-8-2017 at 18:32
Very pure phenethylamine hydrochloride is widely available and cheap from supplement sites. No need to torture yourself with decarboxylations.
AvBAssured Fish - 21-8-2017 at 21:54
I don't mean to be the asshole of the thread but...
Use The Fucken Search Engine.
It does not need to use cyclohexenone as a solvent but instead suggests using cyclohexanol as a solvent with cyclohenenone used catalytically.
It reports an 85% yield from the decarboxylation of α-Phenylalanine.
Nontheless i intend to carry out this reaction at some point soon, once i get the reagents together and find the time.
If you can find a suitable and cheap source of cyclohexenone then you could buy it but i would suggest preparing it by oxidation of cyclohexananol to
cyclohexanone, followed by alpha halogenation under acidic conditions of cyclohenanone to 2-halo-cyclohexanone, followed finally by halide elimination
using an alkali metal alkoxide.
