M1L4 - Amino acid synthesis

Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction

This is the allpha bromination of a carboxylic acid with bromide, phosphorus, and water

Gabriel-pthalimide reaction

This uses a pthalimide ion as an aminating nucleophile before base hydrolysis in amino acid synthesis

Reductive amination

This is the reaction of an amine with an aldehyde or ketone to form an imine, and the reduction of the imine into a secondary amine

Enolate

This refers to a negatively charged carboanion beside a carbonyl group

Tautomer

This refers to one of an equal pair of molecules that easily interconvert

Asymmetric synthesis

This is amino acid synthesis that gives one enantiomer over the other