Fine-Tuned Aminal Cleavage: A Concise Route to Differentially Protected Enantiopure syn-α,β-Diamino Esters

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1542-1547

  Viso, Alma ^a   Fernández De La Pradilla, Roberto ^a   López Rodríguez, María L ^b   García, Ana ^a   Flores, Aida ^a   Alonso, Marta ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; REACTION KINETICS; SUBSTRATES;

AMINAL CLEAVAGE; SELECTIVE CONDITIONS;

AMINES;

ALPHA,BETA DIAMINO ESTER; ESTER; IMIDAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; N SULFINYLIMIDAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; SULFINAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; DIASTEREOISOMER; ENANTIOMER; HYDROLYSIS; OPTICAL ROTATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SOLVOLYSIS;

AMINES; ESTERS; IMIDAZOLES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM; SULFONAMIDES;

EID: 1442299987     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo035613j     Document Type: Article

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