Mild oxidative cleavage of borane-amine adducts from amide reductions: Efficient solution- and solid-phase synthesis of N-alkylamino acids and chiral oligoamines

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 698-699

  Hall, Dennis G ^a   Laplante, Carmen ^a   Manku, Sukhdev ^a   Nagendran, Jeevan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; BORANE DERIVATIVE;

AMINATION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHIRALITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033525195     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo982290w     Document Type: Article

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