Stereoselective synthesis of quaternary α-amino acids. Part 1: acyclic compounds

C Cativiela, MD Dı́az-de-Villegas - Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1998 - Elsevier
1. Introduction 3517 2. Diastereoselective alkylation of α-amino acids. Self-reproduction of
chirality 3518 3. Diastereoselective alkylation of chiral amino acid enolates 3535 4. Chiral β …

Unnatural amino acids: production and biotechnological potential

T Narancic, SA Almahboub, KE O'Connor - World Journal of Microbiology …, 2019 - Springer
Unnatural amino acids (UAAs) are valuable building blocks in the manufacture of a wide
range of pharmaceuticals. UAAs exhibit biological activity as free acids and they can be …

Reductive Decarboxylative Alkynylation of N‐Hydroxyphthalimide Esters with Bromoalkynes

L Huang, AM Olivares, DJ Weix - Angewandte Chemie, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A new method for the synthesis of terminal and internal alkynes from the nickel‐catalyzed
decarboxylative coupling of N‐hydroxyphthalimide esters and bromoalkynes is presented …

Asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids via homologation of Ni (II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases; Part 1: alkyl halide alkylations

AE Sorochinsky, JL Aceña, H Moriwaki, T Sato… - Amino Acids, 2013 - Springer
Alkylations of chiral or achiral Ni (II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases constitute a landmark
in the development of practical methodology for asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids …

Highly Practical Methodology for the Synthesis of d- and l-α-Amino Acids, N-Protected α-Amino Acids, and N-Methyl-α-amino Acids

AG Myers, JL Gleason, T Yoon… - Journal of the American …, 1997 - ACS Publications
Full details are provided for an exceedingly practical method to synthesize d-and l-α-amino
acids, N-protected α-amino acids, and N-methyl-α-amino acids, employing as a key step the …

A catalytic enantioselective synthesis of α-methyl amino acid derivatives by phase-transfer catalysis

MJ O'Donnell, S Wu - Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1992 - Elsevier
PII: S0957-4166(00)82288-0 Page 1 Tetrahedron: Asymmetry Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 591-594, 1992
09574166/92 $5.00+.00 Printed in Great Britain Pergamon Press Ltd A Catalytic Enantioselective …

New synthetic amino acids for the design and synthesis of peptide-based metal ion sensors

A Torrado, B Imperiali - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
The syntheses of two new nonstandard amino acids, Flu (6) and XBp (20), and a new
synthesis of Dmd (12) are reported. These residues exhibit fluorescence, metal …

Asymmetric synthesis of phosphorus analogues of dicarboxylic α-amino acids

VA Soloshonok, YN Belokon, NA Kuzmina… - Journal of the …, 1992 - pubs.rsc.org
An efficient approach to the asymmetric synthesis of phosphorus analogues of dicarboxylic α-
amino acids is described. The method of choice consists in the reaction of the nickel (II) …

Convenient, large-scale asymmetric synthesis of enantiomerically pure trans-cinnamylglycine and-α-alanine

W Qiu, VA Soloshonok, C Cai, X Tang, VJ Hruby - Tetrahedron, 2000 - Elsevier
Asymmetric syntheses of (S)-trans-cinnamylglycine and (S)-α-trans-cinnamyl-α-alanine via
reactions of cinnamyl halides (Cl, Br) with Ni (II)-complexes of the chiral Schiff base of …

A general synthesis of unnatural α-amino acids by iron-catalysed olefin–olefin coupling via generated radicals

VA Larionov, NV Stoletova, VI Kovalev… - Organic Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we report an efficient and practical protocol for the asymmetric synthesis of unnatural
α-amino acids (AAs) with γ-tertiary and quaternary carbon centres via selective …