Syntheses of Macrocyclic Amides from L-Amino Acid Esters by RCM

A series of succinate-derived macrocyclic amides( 1 ) was synthesized via ring-closing metathesis (RCM) as the key step. The substrate included 12 to 15 members. The metathesis precursors were obtained from the amide coupling of tert-butyl 3-carboxyhex-5-enoate(2) with numerous side-chain alkenylated amino acid esters of general type(3)derived from L-lysine and L-ornithine.