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Reactions of protection-free a-amino acids with aldehydes or ketones in the presence of sodium cyanoborohydride afforded the N-monoalkylated amino acids in inorganic salt-free form. Application of this method to the synthesis of N-alkyl derivatives of biologically important amino acids is also described.
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Ohfune et al. (1984) studied this question.
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