Highly Efficient Catalytic Synthesis of alpha-Amino Acids under Phase-Transfer Conditions with a Novel Catalyst/Substrate Pair This work was supported by an ISTC (grant A-356), by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No 99-03-32970), the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Grant No. 203/00/0601), and also by the Grant Agency of Charles University (Grant No. 18/98). We thank Prof. Pavel Kocovský for encouragement and proofreading the manuscript.