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Scheme 2.4
matter of two-fold or so. In our second generation of pyridoxal catalysts for racemiza-
tion, we used a benzene ring as the rigid spacer [40]. Compound
40
can selectively
catalyze racemization of an amino acid in preference to transamination about 11 times
better than does the control compound
41
.
Scheme 2.5
