Highly Diastereoselective Heterogeneously Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Enamines for the Synthesis of Chiral β-Amino Acid Derivatives

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3048-3049

  Ikemoto, Norihiro ^a   Tellers, David M ^a   Dreher, Spencer D ^a   Liu, Jinchu ^a   Huang, Angie ^a   Rivera, Nelo R ^a   Njolito, Eugenia ^a   Hsiao, Yi ^a   McWilliams, J Christopher ^a   Williams, J Michael ^a   Armstrong III, Joseph D ^a   Sun, Yongkui ^a   Mathre, David J ^a   Grabowski, Edward J J ^a   Tillyer, Richard D ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA AMINO ACID; ENAMINE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HYDROGENATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

AMIDES; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEUTERIUM; ESTERS; HYDROGENATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 12144286259     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja038812t     Document Type: Article

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