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SUBMITTER: Davis FA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2533706 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Davis Franklin A FA Zhang Yanfeng Y Qiu Hui H
Organic letters 20070130 5
[reaction: see text] In the absence of water, an excess of the lithium enolate of N-(diphenylmethylene)glycine ethyl ester (4) adds to sulfinimines to give syn-2,3-diamino esters 6, and in the presence of water, this enolate gives the anti-2,3-diamino esters 5. These unusual results are interpreted in terms of those factors that inhibit the retro-Mannich fragmentation in the diamino esters. ...[more]