Enantioselective synthesis of 4-amino-3-hydroxy-2,4- (disubstituted) pentanoic acid

摘要

4-Amino-3-hydroxy-2,4-(disubstituted)pentanoic acids of the formula: ##STR1## useful as intermediates in preparing antibacterial compounds, are synthesized enantiospecifically by acylation of a chiral enolate with an optically active acylating agent. The resulting product is reduced stereospecifically to afford a protected form of the desired product, which contains three adjacent asymmetric centers of known configuration. The synthesis may be illustrated as follows: ##STR2##