Tw. Ku et al., AN ALTERNATE ENANTIOSPECIFIC SYNTHESIS OF METHYL DRO-4-METHYL-3-OXO-1H-1,4-BENZODIAZEPINE-2-ACETATE, Tetrahedron letters, 38(18), 1997, pp. 3131-3134
An alternate enantiospecific synthesis of methyl dro-4-methyl-3-oxo-1H
-1,4-benzodiazepine-2-acetate (5) is reported. The key step, which inv
olves an intermolecular displacement of the activated aryl fluoride (9
) by L-aspartic acid beta-methyl ester, proceeds without racemization.
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