A facile synthesis of ethyl 2-acetamido-4-methylenehex-5-enoate, a versatile Diels-Alder synthon for the parallel synthesis of novel alpha-amino acid derivatives

An efficient synthesis of a diene-containing α-amino acid via the use of Denmark's coupling reaction and its application to the synthesis of novel α-amino acid via the Diels-Alder reaction are described. © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, R, Lee, V, Adlington, R, Baldwin, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2007