Abstract
Lithium amide is shown to give better retention of chirality over sodium amide in the nucleophilic addition of acetonitrile to N,N-dibenzyl L-phenylalanine benzyl ester. Solvent effect is obvious in the case of sodium amide.
Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 30, 2000 - Issue 5
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