@article{2955704, title = "A convenient one-step synthesis of stable β-amino alcohol N-boranes from α-amino acids", author = "Georgios Vougioukalakis and Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Afroditi Pinaka and Dimitra Dimotikali and Vassilis Psyharis", journal = "SYNTHESE - DORDRECHT", year = "2012", volume = "44", number = "07", pages = "1057--1062", publisher = "Georg Thieme Verlag KG", issn = "0039-7857", doi = "10.1055/s-0031-1289727", keywords = "-amino alcohol N -boranes; Amino alcohols; Direct Reduction; Good yield; One step; One step synthesis; sodium borohydride, Amines; Amino acids; Boron compounds; Hydrides; Reduction; Sodium; Sulfuric acid, Alcohols, 2 amino 2 phenylethanol n borane; 2 amino 3 (1h indol 2 yl)propan 1 ol n borane; 2 amino 3 methylpentan 1 ol n borane; 2 amino 3 phenylpropan 1 ol n borane; 2 amino 4 methylpentan 1 ol n borane; 2 amino 4 methylsulfanylbutan 1 ol n borane; alpha amino acid; aminoalcohol; borane derivative; isoleucine; leucine; methionine; phenylalanine; phenylglycine; sodium borohydride; sulfuric acid; tryptophan; unclassified drug, article; carbon nuclear magnetic resonance; chemical structure; heteronuclear single quantum coherence; infrared spectroscopy; mass spectrometry; proton nuclear magnetic resonance; synthesis; X ray crystallography", abstract = "Novel, non-cyclic -amino alcohol N-boranes are isolated from the sodium borohydride-sulfuric acid assisted direct reduction of a series of -amino acids. The reduction takes place in one step under mild conditions and affords the products in good yields. © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York." }