A facile synthesis of β-lactams by the cyclization of β-amino acids exploiting 3,3′-(phenylphosphoryl)-bis(1,3-thiazolidine-2-thione)

Article abstract of DOI:10.3987/COM-95-S97

3,3′-(Phenylphosphoryl)-bis(1,3-thiazolidine-2-thione) (5), obtained from phenylphosphonic dichloride (7) and sodium salt of 1,3-thiazolidine-2-thione (6), proved to be useful for intramolecular dehydration of various β-amino acids to give the correspondi