“…Parallel with the application of the α-ketoamide moiety in medicinal chemistry, numerous synthetic methods have been described [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]. Several authors have demonstrated that the synthesis of the α-ketoamide fragment can be achieved by ring opening of N -acetylisatin ( 1 ) by the attack of an amine at C2-carbonyl group of N -acetylisatin (Scheme 1) [22,23,24,25,26,27]. Recently, Cheah et al [28,29] reported the reaction of N -acetylisatin with L-α-amino acid esters as a novel class of N -glyoxylamide peptide mimics.…”