Va. Soloshonok et al., CHEMOENZYMATIC APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESIS OF EACH OF THE 4 ISOMERS OF ALPHA-ALKYL-BETA-FLUOROALKYL-SUBSTITUTED BETA-AMINO ACIDS, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 5(7), 1994, pp. 1225-1228
Starting from easily available ethyl 2-methyl-4,4,4-trifluoroacetoacet
ate and benzylamine each of the four stereoisomers of alpha-methyl-bet
a-trifluoromethyl-beta-alanine have been synthesized in optically pure
form via stereocontrolled chemo-enzymatic procedure including diaster
eoselective base-catalyzed [1,3]-proton shirt reaction and enantiosele
ctive penicillin acylase-catalyzed resolution.