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SUBMITTER: Qiu L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2040417 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20071017 43
We describe highly enantioselective synthesis of beta-amino acid derivatives (1a-c) using asymmetric hydrogenation of alpha-aminomethylacrylates (2a-c), which contain a free basic N H group, as the key step. The alpha-aminomethylacrylates (2a-c) were prepared using the Baylis-Hillman reaction of an appropriate aldehyde with methyl acrylate followed by acetylation of the resulting allylic alcohols (4a-b) and S(N)2'-type amination of the allylic acetates (3a-b). ...[more]