Total synthesis of anticonvulsant amino acid, lacosamide, is reported. The key step is stereospecific allyl cyanate-to-isocyanate rearrangement, which proceeds with chirality transfer. The enantiopure starting material for the rearrangement step was accessed from ethyl L-lactate.
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