Young Douglas D, Torres-Kolbus Jessica, Deiters Alexander
Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8204, Raleigh, NC 27695-8204, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2008 Oct 15;18(20):5478-80. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.09.025. Epub 2008 Sep 10.
Microwave irradiation has been proven to be a useful tool in the rapid assembly of racemic unnatural amino acids in only two steps. Additional benefits of this methodology are the commercial availability of the inexpensive starting materials and the high yields and high purities of the final amino acid products.