The Journal of Organic Chemistry

(.+-.)-. beta.-Methyleneaspartic acid

P Dowd, C Kaufman

Index: Dowd,P.; Kaufman,C. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1979 , vol. 44, # 22 p. 3956 - 3957

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Abstract

I reversible isomerization of P-methylaspartate to glutamate, 2 one of the three known coenzyme B12 dependent, enzyme-catalyzed, carbon-skeleton rearrangement reactions. P- Methylaspartic acid (I) also occurs in nature as a component of the polypeptide antibiotics aspartocin3 and glumamy~ in.~ Because there exists a high level of interest in the P, y- unsaturated amino acids5 and expressly for the purpose6 of attachment to the cobalt atom ...