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A general access to 3-hydroxy-4-(1-hydroxyalkyl)-beta -lactams with a C-4-C
-1 relative configuration unlike is provided. The subsequent oxidative ring
expansion of the corresponding 3-hydroxy beta -lactam smoothly affords an
alpha -amino acid N-carboxy anhydride (NCA) formally derived from (2S,3S)-b
eta -substituted serine, which upon sequential peptide coupling furnishes t
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