A practical asymmetric synthesis of homochiral α-arylglycines
Mellin-Morlière C., Aitken DJ., Bull SD., Davies SG., Husson HP.
Enantioselective reduction of a series of substituted aryl trichloromethyl ketones with the CBS-catecholborane reagent afforded homochiral aryl trichloromethyl carbinols which have been elaborated to give homochiral α-arylglycines in high e.e. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd.