Sd. Bull et al., A CHIRAL RELAY AUXILIARY FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HOMOCHIRAL ALPHA-AMINO-ACIDS, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I (Print), (15), 1998, pp. 2321-2330
A new chiral auxiliary s(p-methoxybenzyl)-3-isopropylpiperazine-2,5-di
one 7 has been developed for the asymmetric synthesis of a-amino acids
. The auxiliary 7 employs a novel chiral relay network based on non-st
ereogenic N-benzyl protecting groups which enhance the diastereoselect
ivity observed during alkylation of its C-6 enolate 25.