N. Sewald et al., ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF ALPHA-TRIFLUOROMETHYL SUBSTITUTED AMINO-ACIDSVIA 3-HYDROXY-3-TRIFLUOROMETHYL-2,5-DIKETOPIPERAZINES, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 5(6), 1994, pp. 1051-1060
The diastereoselective reaction of organometallic compounds (RMgX, R(2
)Cd) with in situ generated trifluoromethyl substituted cyclic acyl im
ines representing homochiral alpha-electrophilic 3,3,3-trifluoroalanin
e equivalents gives 3-alkyl-3-trifluoromethyl-2,5-diketopiperazines. T
he corresponding homochiral dipeptide esters are obtained on acidolysi
s in methanol.