文摘
A series of chiral pyridoxals 8 and 9 have been developed from commercially available pyridoxine and (S)-伪,伪-diarylprolinols. The pyridoxals exhibited good catalytic activity in an asymmetric transamination of 伪-keto acids with 2,2-diphenylglycine (7f) as the amine source to give various 伪-amino acids in 29鈥?5% yields with 53鈥?0% ee鈥檚. The current asymmetric transamination has successfully mimicked a complete biological transamination process characterized by two half-transaminations, a small chiral pyridoxal molecule acting as the catalyst, and enantioselective control.