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The chiral and stereoselective synthesis of (+)-lactacystin 1, the first non-protein neurotrophic factor, is described; the γ-lactam portion possessing a quaternary carbon in 1 was constructed stereoselectively from D-glucose using the allylic trichloroacetimidate rearrangement (Overman rearrangement) as the key reaction.
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Chida et al. (1995) studied this question.
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