Recent Advances in the Syntheses of Fluorinated Amino Acids

Fluorine in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 213-256

  Uneyama, Kenji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chirality by hydrogenation; Diastereoselective syntheses; Diastereoselective synthesis of fluorinated amino acids; Enantioselective synthesis involving chemical modification via introduction of chiral center into achiral fluorinated building blocks; Enzymatic resolution of racemic fluorinated building blocks; Fluorine functionality into nonfluorinated chiral building blocks; Racemic amino acids; Recent advances in fluorinated amino acid syntheses

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953529374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312096.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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