Tetrahedron

New approaches to the asymmetric synthesis of non-proteinogenic α-amino acids and dipeptides through chiral β-lactam intermediates

I Ojima, HJC Chen, X Qiu

Index: Ojima, Iwao; Chen, Hauh-Jyun C.; Qiu, Xiaogang Tetrahedron, 1988 , vol. 44, # 17 p. 5307 - 5318

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Abstract

Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Novel and effective routes to optically pure aromatic α-amino acids, α-methyl-α-amino acids and their derivatives including dipeptides are developed via homochiral β-lactams which are obtained through asymmetric [2+2] cycloadditions of ketenes to imines. ... RC Pandey, H. Meng, ...