1. Presented in part during the 12th International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-12), Venice, Italy, July 2nd, 1998.
2. See, for example: (a) Juaristi, E. Introduction to Stereochemistry and Conformational Analysis; Wiley: New York, 1991.
3. (b) Eliel, E. L.; Wilen, S. H.; Mander, L. N. Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds; Wiley: New York, 1994.
4. (c) Juaristi, E. An. Quím. Int. Ed. 1997, 93, 135.
5. (a) α-Amino Acid Synthesis; O’Donnell, M. J., Ed.; Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print, Tetrahedron 1988, 44, p. 5253.