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Naphthamides derived from L-proline, which exist as a mixture of several diastereomers in solution, converged to single diastereomer by crystallization, and the conformational transformation was controlled after the crystals were dissolved in the solvent at low temperature, where the frozen conformation was retained long enough for subsequent asymmetric reaction.
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Sakamoto et al. (2007) studied this question.
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