Abstract: | A new method has been developed for the synthesis of 2-phenylproline and its derivatives by intramolecular cyclization of the corresponding derivatives of N-(3-chloro-or 1-oxo-3-chloropropyl)--phenylglycine under phase transfer catalysis conditions.A. L. Mndzhoyan Institute of Fine Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 375014 Yerevan, Armenia; e-mail: rafael@msrc.am. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 488–492, April, 2000. |