Convenient synthetic route to an enantiomerically pure FMOC α-amino acid

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 9334-9339

  Taber, Douglass F ^a   Berry, James F ^a   Martin, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; DIASTEREOMERS; MENTHYL ESTERS; SIDE CHAINS; SYNTHETIC ROUTES;

AMINATION;

ALPHA AMINO ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; ESTER; MENTHOL; AMINO ACID; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; N(ALPHA)-FLUORENYLMETHYLOXYCARBONYLAMINO ACIDS;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENANTIOMER; RACEMIZATION; SYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACIDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; ESTERS; FLUORENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MENTHOL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 57449108895     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo801781v     Document Type: Article

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