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Asymmetric strecker synthesis using enantiopure sulfinimines: A convenient synthesis of α-amino acids

FA Davis, RE Reddy, PS Portonovo

Index: Davis, Franklin A.; Reddy, Rajarathnam E.; Portonovo, Padma S. Tetrahedron Letters, 1994 , vol. 35, # 50 p. 9351 - 9354

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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. ... Diethylaluminum cyanide adds stereoselectively to enantiopure sulfinimines 1 and 2 to give diastereomerically enriched α-amino nitriles 3 and 4 which are hydrolyzed in one step to α-amino acids 5 in >95% ee and good yields. ... Stereoselective addition of diethylaluminum ...