Use of di-tert-butyl pyrocarbonate to obtain N-tert-butoxycarbonyl derivatives of amino acids

Summary It has been shown that BOC derivatives of amino acids can be obtained by the tert-butoxycarbonylation of amino-acid salts with di-tert-butylpyrocarbonate in aqueous organic solutions.Institute of Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 764–767, November–December, 1974.