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4. A first total synthesis of dysiherbaine (1) has been achieved by the Iwabuchi and Hatakeyama group of Nagasaki University. They completed the total synthesis by a cross-coupling based strategy very similar to ours and established the absolute configuration of dysiherbaine as shown in structure 1: Masaki, H.; Maeyama, J.; Kamada, K.; Iwabuchi, Y.; Hatakeyama, S. In 41th Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products; Symposium papers, 1999; pp. 13–18. Very recently, the second total synthesis has been reported: Snider, B. B.; Hawryluk, N. A. Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 635–638.
5. Palladium(0)-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of 3 with aryl halides has been successfully used for the preparation of various amino acids: Jackson, R. F. W.; Wishart, N.; Wood, A.; James, K.; Wythes, M. J. J. Org. Chem. 1992, 57, 3397–3404.