On the chemoselectivity of pyroglutamates in reactions with indole derivatives

Design and synthesis of conformationally constrained amino acids as versatile scaffolds and peptide mimetics

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Pharmacy, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +16

A mild two-step method for the hydrolysis of lactams and secondary amides

Daniel L. Flynn, Robert E. Zelle, Paul A. Grieco · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1983 · 272 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +6

Stereoselective reactions of lithium enolates derived from N-BOC protected pyroglutamic esters

Jesús Ezquerra, Concepción Pedregal, Almudena Rubio et al. · Tetrahedron · 1993 · 83 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry +8

Stereoselective hydroxylation of N-carbamoyl-L-pyroglutamate. Synthesis of (−)-bulgecinine

Tomihisa Ohta, Akio Hosoi, Shigeo Nozoe · Tetrahedron Letters · 1988 · 77 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +4

Amino acid synthesis using ()-pyroglutamic acid as a chiral starting material

Jack E. Baldwin, Tânia Lúcia Santos Miranda, Mark G. Moloney et al. · Tetrahedron · 1989 · 69 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +7