Highly Enantioselective Decarboxylative Protonation of α-Aminomalonates Mediated by Thiourea Cinchona Alkaloid Derivatives: Access to Both Enantiomers of Cyclic and Acyclic α-Aminoacids

Abstract
Thiourea derived cinchona alkaloids promote the asymmetric decarboxylative protonation of cyclic, acyclic, or bicyclic alpha-aminomalonate hemiesters under mild and metal-free conditions to afford enantioenriched aminoesters in high yields and enantioselectivities up to 93%. Both enantiomers of the aminoesters have been synthesized with the same selectivity when using organic base 3 and its pseudoenantiomer 6 derived from quinine.

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