Memory of chirality of tertiary aromatic amides: A simple and efficient method for the enantioselective synthesis of quaternary α-amino acids

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 10711-10718

  Branca, Mathieu ^a   Pena, Sébastien ^a   Guillot, Régis ^a   Gori, Didier ^a   Alezra, Valérie ^a   Kouklovsky, Cyrille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMIDES; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; AXIAL CHIRALITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; DEPROTECTION; DFT CALCULATION; EFFICIENT METHOD; EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS; ELECTROPHILES; ENANTIOPURE; ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS; ENOLIZATION; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GOOD YIELD; L-AMINO ACIDS; MEMORY OF CHIRALITIES; NMR STUDIES; ONE STEP; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; RECRYSTALLIZATION;

AMIDES; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ORGANIC ACIDS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

AMINATION;

ALPHA AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID; AROMATIC AMIDE; ELECTROPHILE; LEUCINE; OXAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; VALINE;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; CHIRALITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM YIELD; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

ALKYLATION; AMIDES; AMINO ACIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68049094200     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9039604     Document Type: Article

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