Solved: Sometimes chemists need the unnatural D enantiomer of an amino acid, often as
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Sometimes chemists need the unnatural D enantiomer of an amino acid, often as part of a drug or an insecticide. Most L-amino acids are isolated from proteins, but the D-amino acids are rarely found in natural proteins. D-amino acids can be synthesized from the corresponding L-amino acids. The following synthetic scheme is one of the possible methods. RNH2 (a) Draw the structures of intermediates 1 and 2 in this scheme. (b) How do we know that the product is entirely the unnatural D configuration?
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