Efficient access to enantiomerically pure cyclic α-amino esters through a lipase-catalyzed kinetic resolution

S Alatorre-Santamaría, M Rodriguez-Mata…

Index: Alatorre-Santamaria, Sergio; Rodriguez-Mata, Maria; Gotor-Fernandez, Vicente; de Mattos, Marcos Carlos; Sayago, Francisco J.; Jimenez, Ana I.; Cativiela, Carlos; Gotor, Vicente Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 2008 , vol. 19, # 14 p. 1714 - 1719

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Abstract

A series of α-amino acid derivatives containing the 2, 3-dihydroindole or octahydroindole core have been chemoenzymatically synthesized in good overall yields and high enantiomeric purity under mild reaction conditions using lipases for the introduction of chirality. Candida antarctica lipase type A has shown excellent activity and high enantiodiscrimination ability toward the two cyclic amino esters used as substrates. The ...