R-amino acid reductions, allow entry to other classes of compounds that are also useful as
the source of chiral centers, as with R-amino aldehydes, that, in turn, can be used in a …

Among the different possible cyclizations leading to nitrogen-containing heterocycles,
iminium ion cyclization is a widely used process exemplified by some very famous, and old …

Conjugate addition of organometaUic reagents to a,/8-unsaturated organic substrates is an
important and weU-known method of assembling structurally complex organic molecules. 1 …

Well over a decade ago, two reviews were contributed to the Organic Reactions series
covering substitution and conjugate addition reactions in organocopper chemistry. Their …

This microreview presents the use of 1, 3‐oxazolidines, prepared from enantiomerically pure
β‐amino alcohols, as chiral inductors for the stereoselective transformation of adjacent …

Protic aminophosphines with multiple chiral centers were synthesized in good yields and
high purity by the nucleophilic ring-opening of N-protected cyclic sulfamidates with metal …

Successive treatment of (E)-Cα, Cβ-disubstltuted N-enoyl sultams 6 and 13 with
organocopper reagents (Me2CuLi,(CH2 CH) 2CuLi, Ph2CuLi in the presence of PBu3 or …

A total synthesis of cytochalasin D 3 is reported in which the key step is an intramolecular
Diels–Alder reaction used to close the 11-membered ring simultaneously introducing the …

One drawback frequently associated with olefin metathesis-mediated peptide
macrocyclization, the loss of side chain functionality at sites of ring closure, may be …

Abstract Treatment of N-tert-butoxycarbonyl derivatives of homochiral β-amino alcohols with
p-toluenesulfonyl chloride affords 2-axazolidinones. These heterocycles were produced by …