Acetamido cinamic acid

Reaction 9.1 has been extensively studied to establish the mechanism of asymmetric hydrogenation. The catalytic cycle proposed for the asymmetric hydrogenation of the methyl ester of a-acetamido cinamic acid with 9.14 as the precatalyst is shown in Fig. 9.3. As mentioned earlier, this reaction is one of the early examples of industrial applications of asymmetric catalysis for the manufacture of L-DOPA (see Table 1.1). 

What are the similarities and differences in the behavior of a-acetamido-cinamic acid and allyl amine as ligands in asymmetric hydrogenation and isomerization reactions, respectively ... 

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