Abstract The syntheses of various amino-and hydroxy-substituted dehydrophenylalanine derivatives using the Heck-Jeffery protocol under non-solvent conditions in a ball mill are presented. The influences of electron-withdrawing groups and of the location of the heteroatom substituent relative to the halide are discussed. Suitably substituted ortho-amino dehydrophenylalanine derivatives undergo a cyclization-elimination reaction to the ...
[Stokes, Benjamin J.; Dong, Huijun; Leslie, Brooke E.; Pumphrey, Ashley L.; Driver, Tom G. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007 , vol. 129, # 24 p. 7500 - 7501]