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An enantioconvergent route to(-)-kainic acid
Nakada, Yoshihisa,Sugahara, Tsutomu,Ogasawara, Kunio
, p. 857 - 860 (1997)
A new stereocontrolled route to (-)-kainic acid, the representative of the kainoid amino acids and exhibiting insecticidal, anthelmintic and neuroexcitatory properties, has been devised in an enantioconvergent way using either (+)- or (-)-ketodicyclopentadiene as the starting material by employing a concurrent retro-Diels-Alder reaction and intramolecular ene reaction as the key step.
