Synthetic tool, amino acids

Control of Diastereoselectivity for Iridium-Catalyzed Allylation of a Prochiral Nucleophile with a Phosphate Counterion

Wenyong Chen and John F. Hartwig *

 

A useful way to synthesize enantio- and dia-stereomerically pure allyl-functionalized non-traditional aminoacids.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja311363a 

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