Organic Letters 2006-03-02

A novel route to dipeptides via noncondensation of amino acids: 2-aminoperfluoropropene as a synthon for trifluoroalanine dipeptides.

Yong Guo, Kana Fujiwara, Kenji Uneyama

Index: Org. Lett. 8(5) , 827-9, (2006)

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Abstract

2-Aminoperfluoropropene has been prepared by the Mg-promoted defluorinative N-silylation of N-p-methoxyphenyl hexafluoroacetone imine and has been employed as a synthon of trifluoroalanine for the preparation of trifluoroalanine dipeptides.