ABSTRACT
Non-α-amino acids are known to play a prominent role in nature and in important biological compounds. Indeed, there are many examples of non-α-amino acids that possess important biological properties. This chapter discusses several types of these amino acids in order to illustrate both the impetus for synthesizing amino acids and the various structural types that are found. Those synthetic approaches presented in this chapter span the range of methods presented in the rst ve chapters, and include some new strategies as well.
