A Facile Route to Cyclic and Acyclic Alkyl-Arginines

Kevin J. Kennedy, Tiberiu L. Simandan, Thomas A. Dix

Synthetic Communications · 1998 · 24 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

Abstract Treatment of commercially available alkyl and cycloalkyl thioureas with methyl iodide provides the corresponding S-alkylisothiouronium iodide which reacts directly with ornithine to yield the title compounds.

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