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Convenient Asymmetric Synthesis of Fmoc-(S)-6,6,6-Trifluoro-Norleucine
- Haibo Mei,
- Zizhen Yin,
- Toshio Miwa,
- Hiroki Moriwaki,
- Hidenori Abe,
- Jianlin Han and
- Vadim A. Soloshonok
In this work we report a convenient asymmetric synthesis of Fmoc-(S)-6,6,6-trifluoro-norleucine via alkylation reaction of chiral glycine equivalent. The target amino acid of 99% enantiomeric purity was prepared with 82.4% total yield (three steps).

