Preface.
Preface to the First Edition.
Contributors.
1. Structural Types of Relevant b-Amino Acid Targets (Eusebio Juaristi).
2. beta-Amino Acids in Natural Products (Peter Spiteller and Franz von Nussbaum).
3. Preparation of Enantiopure beta-Amino Acids by Homologation of alpha-Amino Acids (Joachim Podlech).
4. Asymmetric Catalysis in Enantioselective Synthesis of beta-Amino Acids (Anna G. Wenzel and Eric N. Jacobsen).
5. Enantioselective Synthesis of Conformationally Constrained beta-Amino Acids (Rosa M. Ortuño).
6. Catalytic Enantioselective Mannich Reactions (Masaharu Ueno and Shu Kobayashi).
7. Enantioselective Synthesis of beta-Amino Acids via Stereoselective Hydrogenation of beta-Aminoacrylic Acid Derivatives (Eusebio Juaristi, Vctor Manuel Gutiérrez-Garca, and Heraclio López-Ruiz)
8. Asymmetric Synthesis of beta-Amino Acids by Enolate Additions to tert-Butanesulfinyl Imines (Kristin Brinner and Jonathan A. Ellman).
9. Organocatalytic Approaches to Enantioenriched beta-Amino Acids (Fujie Tanaka and Carlos F. Barbas, III).
10. Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyclic beta-Amino Acids via Cycloaddition Reactions (José Barluenga, Bernardo Olano, Josefa Flórez, and Carlos Valdés).
11. Enantioselective Synthesis of Novel beta-Amino Acids (Javed Iqbal and Saibal Kumar Das).
12. Asymmetric Synthesis of Phosphonic Analogs of beta-Amino Acids (Marian MikoBajczyk, Józef Drabowicz, and Piotr Lyzwa).
13. Asymmetric Synthesis of alpha-Substituted-beta-Amino Phosphonates and Phosphinates and beta-Amino Sulfur Analogs (Francisco Palacios, Concepción Alonso, and Jesús de los Santos).
14. Stereoselective Synthesis of Fluorine-Containing beta-Amino Acids (Santos Fustero, Juan F. Sanz-Cervera, and Vadim A. Soloshonok).
15. Enantioselective Synthesis of beta-Amino Acids via Conjugate Addition to alpha, beta-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds (Scott J. Miller and David J. Guerin).
16. Preparation of Enantiopure beta-Amino Acids via Enantioselective Conjugate Addition (Mei Liu and Mukund P. Sibi).
17. Biocatalytic Entry to Enantiomerically Pure beta-Amino Acids (Dmitrii O. Berbasov, Trevor K. Ellis, and Vadim A. Soloshonok).
18. Stereoselective Synthesis of beta-Amino Acids via Radical Reactions (Takeaki Naito and Okiko Miyata).
19. Recent Advances in Synthesis of alpha-Hydroxy-beta-amino Acids and Their Use in SAR Studies of Taxane Anticancer Agents (Jin Chen, Larisa V. Kuznetsova, Ioana M. Ungreanu, and Iwao Ojima).
20. Synthesis of beta-Amino Acids and Their Derivatives from b-Lactams: Update (Claudio Palomo, Jesús M. Aizpurua, Iñaki Ganboa, and Mikel Oiarbide).
21. Multiple-Component Condensation Methods for Preparation of Combinatorial Libraries of beta-Amino Carbonyl Derivatives (James C. Adrian, Jr.).
22. Using Constrained b-Amino Acid Residues to Control beta-Peptide Shape and Function (Michael A. Gelman and Samuel H. Gellman).
23. beta2-Amino Acids with Proteinogenic Side Chains and Corresponding Peptides: Synthesis, Secondary Structure, and Biological Activity (Marino A. Campo, Jaime Escalante, and Radovan Scaron;ebesta).
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