Most of the compounds have physiologically active properties, and their biological properties are often attributed to the heteroatoms contained in their molecules, and most of these heteroatoms also appear in cyclic structures. A Journal, Tetrahedron Letters called Enantioselective synthesis of (-)-velbanamine and (+)-isovelbanamine using L-glutamic acid as chiral template, Author is Takano, Seiichi; Yonaga, Masahiro; Chiba, Kenji; Ogasawara, Kunio, which mentions a compound: 32780-06-6, SMILESS is O=C1O[C@H](CO)CC1, Molecular C5H8O3, Computed Properties of C5H8O3.
(-)-Velbanamine and (+)-isovelbanamine (I; R = Et, R1 = OH; R = OH, R1 = Et, resp.) were stereoselectively prepared from L-glutamic acid in 14 steps. I are potential intermediates for the Pandaca alkaloids in the natural configuration.
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