... A Convenient Method for P-Lactam Formation from P-Amino Acids using Diphenylphosphinic Chloride Sunggak Kim,* Phil Ho Lee, and Tai Au Lee Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 13G012, Korea Diphenylphosphinic chloride is found to be very effective in promoting (3-lactam formation from 6-amino acids. ... View Article Online / Journal Homepage / Table of Contents for this issue Page 2. J . CHEM. ...