Liyuan Mou, Gurdial Singh
Sep 10, 2001
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
Abstract The synthesis of ( S )-2-amino-8-oxodecanoic acid, a constituent of the cyclic tetrapeptides, the apicidins, was accomplished under photolytic conditions in the presence of tri- n -butyltin hydride using glutamic acid. This enabled a total synthesis of apicidin A to be completed.