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Synthesis of Chiral Amines Using α‐Amino Aldehydes
Author(s) -
Hili Ryan,
Baktharaman Sivaraj,
Yudin Andrei K.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european journal of organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1099-0690
pISSN - 1434-193X
DOI - 10.1002/ejoc.200800604
Subject(s) - chemistry , aldehyde , amine gas treating , reagent , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , rank (graph theory) , amino acid , catalysis , combinatorics , biochemistry , mathematics
If one were to rank chemical reagents on the basis of their “synthetic content”, loosely defined as the density of functional groups per arbitrary unit of molecular space, the α‐amino aldehydes will find themselves close to the very top of that list. The presence of synthetically ubiquitous amine and aldehyde functionalities predisposes α‐amino aldehydes towards highly convergent bond‐forming operations. Such juxtaposition does not come without a price: incompatibility of these functional groups calls for protecting groups. We discuss challenges and recently identified opportunities in this field.(© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008)