Chiral donor–acceptor azetines as powerful reactants for synthesis of amino acid derivatives

Chiral 3-azetidinones are structural analogues of medicinally relevant β-lactams, however their synthesis and reactivity are underexplored. Here, the authors show a highly enantioselective copper-catalyzed [3 + 1]-cycloaddition generating 2-azetidines, which react with nucleophiles yielding amino ac...

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Main Authors: Kostiantyn O. Marichev, Kuiyong Dong, Lynée A. Massey, Yongming Deng, Luca De Angelis, Kan Wang, Hadi Arman, Michael P. Doyle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13326-8