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The dehydrodiketopiperazines 6 undergo face selective hydrogenation with a 5% palladium on carbon catalyst to give the diketopiperazines 7 in high yield with excellent diastereoisomeric ratios (>97%).
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Leeming, P., Fronczek, F.R., Ager, D.J. et al. Asymmetric hydrogenations of diketopiperazines. Topics in Catalysis 13, 175–177 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009001426093
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