E. Perrotta et al., Choice of protecting groups for tricarboxylic acids. Synthesis and orthogonal deprotection of 2-carboxysuccinic esters, SYNLETT, (1), 1999, pp. 144-146
We describe here the synthesis of 2-(4-nitrobenzyloxycarbonyl)succinic acid
1-allyl ester 4-tert-butyl ester, and an easily attainable deprotection ro
ute to the removal of each one of the ester Functionalities, to give compou
nds useful as building blocks and formally equivalent to a carboxy analog o
f aspartic acid.