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SUBMITTER: Haider V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8790592 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic & biomolecular chemistry 20220126 4
Selenium-containing amino acids are valuable targets but methods for the stereoselective α-selenation of simple amino acid precursors are rare. We herein report the enantioselective electrophilic α-selenation of azlactones (masked α-amino acid derivatives) and isoxazolidin-5-ones (masked β-amino acids) using Cinchona alkaloids as easily accessible organocatalysts. A variety of differently substituted derivatives was accessed with reasonable levels of enantioselectivities and further studies conc ...[more]