ChemInform Abstract: Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Dipeptides Using 2‐Trifluoromethylδ2‐ and 2‐Trifluoromethyl‐δ3‐oxazolin‐5‐ones.

Abstract

The reductive aminolysis of the Δ2‐oxazoline (I) with the amino acids (S)‐(II) gives the dipeptides (III) with an excess of the (RS)‐diastereomer.