-New strategies for the asymmetric vicinal acylation of olefins and the synthesis of enantiomerically pure amino acids are presented. Both use, as key step, a cycloaddition reaction involving a reagent easily prepared from chiral amides derived from pyrrolidines with C2 symmetry.
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