Conformational Analysis of Diastereomeric α-Amino Nitriles

Oxidative 1,2-carboamination of alkenes with alkyl nitriles and amines toward γ-amino alkyl nitriles

Difunctionalization of alkenes has become a powerful tool for quickly increasing molecular complexity in synthesis. Despite significant progress in the area of alkene difunctionalization involving the incorporation of a nitrogen atom across the C-C double bonds, approaches for the direct 1,2-carboamination of alkenes to produce linear N-containing molecules are scarce and remain a formidable ch...

The Bromodecarboxylation of Amino Acids: Formation of Nitriles* “r$

In previous papers from this laboratory (1, 2) it has been reported that a-amino acids undergo a quantitative decarboxylation.in aqueous solution when treated with N-bromosuccinimide. Under the conditions used\ (a temperature of 30” and a pH of 3 to 5), the reaction was complete in 30 minutes. Anomalies in behavior were observed with glycine and /3-alanine. The consumption of N-bromosuccinimide...

Solution conformational analysis of the alpha-zein proteins of maize.

Small angle x-ray scattering and viscometric analyses of the alpha-zeins of maize in solution indicated that the molecules were asymmetric. Structure predictions of consensus sequences for the two classes of alpha-zeins, Z19 and Z22, were in good agreement with the alpha-helical contents determined by circular dichroism. Dimensions determined by small angle x-ray scattering and viscometry indic...

One Pot Synthesis of Alpha-Aminonitrile and Alpha-Amino Acid From Schiff Bases

Addition of Potassium cyanide to a mixture of Schiff base and lithium perchlorate afforded a-aminonitriles in high yields. Addition of potassium cyanide to a methanolic solution of Schiff base and phosphoric acid afforded a-aminonitriles. When the reaction mixture was refluxed it gave a-amino acids in high yields.

Study on induction of stereoselectivity in the Strecker synthesis of basic amino acid-derived -amino nitriles