Tetrahedron Letters,Vo1.23,No.Z4,pp 2491-2494,1982 0040-4039/82/242491-04$03.00/O Printed in Great Britain ... DIRECT CONVERSION OF ALLYLIC ALCOHOLS INTO N-ACYL-a-AMINO ACIDS BY CATALYTIC ... AMIDOCARBONYLATION BY MEANS OF HOMOGENEOUS BINARY SYSTEMS ... Kenji HIRAI, Yoshitaka TAKAHASHI, and Iwao OJIMA* ... Sagami Chemical Research Center, Nishi-Ohnuma 4-4-1, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229 (Japan)