A highly practical method for monobenzylation of amino acids

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397910008087240

Amino acids are cleanly monobenzylated at ambient temperature using benzyl chloride in water containing potassium carbonate.

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A Highly Practical Method for
Monobenzylation of Amino Acids
Hua-Wu Shao b , Yikang Wu a & Rongziu Li b
a State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic & Natutal
Products Chemistry, Shanghai Instiute of Organic
Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai ,
200032 , China
b Shanghai Research Center of Biotechnoligy, Chinese
Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , 200233 , China
Published online: 04 Dec 2007.
To cite this article: Hua-Wu Shao , Yikang Wu & Rongziu Li (2000) A Highly Practical
Method for Monobenzylation of Amino Acids, Synthetic Communications: An
International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 30:11,
1911-1915, DOI: 10.1080/00397910008087240
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