Alkylations of chiral imidazolidinones derived from di- and triglycine and attempts at cyclisations to give cycloisodityrosines

Liebigs Annales

Volumn , Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1259-1276

  Bezençon, Olivier ^a   Seebach, Dieter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diglycine; Imidazolidin 4 ones, 2 tert butyl , from di and triglycines; Li enolates of peptides; Li enolates, alkylations imidazolidinone derivatives; Triglycine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010369610     PISSN: 09473440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jlac.199619960805     Document Type: Article

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