Sn. Danthi et Ra. Hill, SYNTHESIS OF CHIRALLY PURE 2,5-DISUBSTITUTED DIKETOPIPERAZINES DERIVED FROM TRISUBSTITUTED PHENYLALANINES, Journal of heterocyclic chemistry, 34(3), 1997, pp. 835-844
Some new chirally pure 2,5-substituted diketopiperazines were synthesi
zed starting from 2-methoxybenzyl alcohol. This multistep synthesis pr
oceeds through the enzymatic synthesis of chirally pure amino acids, p
rotection and dipeptide coupling, cyclization of dipeptide ester forma
tes, and nitration of the resulting diketopiperazines.