Chiral compounds, Amino acids tartrate

Outside the amino acid and carbohydrate pools, derivatives of natural and unnatural tartaric acid (l- and d- respectively) merit attention as chiral syn-thons, in addition to their more familiar applications in classical resolution and asymmetric synthesis. Biologically active compounds prepared from tartrates (Scheme 5.34) include the symmetry-based HIV protease inhibitor (78) [96] and the endotoxin inhibitors (79) [97]. 

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