“…In addition, b-hydroxy-a-amino acids are used as chiral building blocks in preparing precursors to important molecules [132][133][134][135][136][137]. Currently, various synthetic methods have been developed to prepare b-hydroxy-a- amino acids stereoselectively, which include asymmetric aldol reaction [138][139][140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156], alkylation [153][154][155][156], electrophilic amination and allylic amination [157,158], conjugate addition [159], cyanation [160], enantioselective hydrogenation [161], selective hydrolysis [135], rearrangement [162][163][164][165], regioselective aziridine ring opening [135,[166][167][168], dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) [169][170]…”