Johannesen Sine A, Albu Silvia, Hazell Rita G, Skrydstrup Troels
Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Sep 7(17):1962-3. doi: 10.1039/b405141f. Epub 2004 Jul 19.
Alkyl nitrones possessing N-substituted sugars as chiral auxiliaries were found to effectively undergo an SmI(2)-mediated radical addition to n-butyl acrylate affording gamma-amino acid derivatives with high diastereomeric control.