“…Protected forms of racemic 2,3-methanovaline 378 , ( Z )-2,3-methanophenylalanine ( Z )- 379 , norcoronamic acid ( Z )- 380 , and ( Z )-aspartic acid ( Z )- 381 were prepared by base-induced cyclization of the corresponding γ-bromo-substituted amino acid derivatives 374 − 377 (Scheme ), which had been synthesized by regioselective bromination of the correspondingly protected underlying amino acids leucine, homophenylalanine, norvaline, and glutamic acid. , An anlogous transformation of the brominated β,γ-didehydrovaline derivative 382 afforded the protected 1-amino-2-methylenecyclopropanecarboxylic acid 383 (Scheme ) . According to this method, enantiopure 2,3-methanovaline was obtained by introduction of an additional stereocenter into the N -phthaloyl protecting group (Scheme ) …”