Synthesis of chiral amino acids and amines over solid catalysts

Abstract

Diastereoselective heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenations producing chiral amino acids and amines are reviewed. The most important reactants are dehydroamino acids, dehydropeptides, dehydrodiketopiperazines, Schiff's bases, oximes, which possess prochiral groups of C=C and C=N bonds to be hydrogenated.