1995 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 344-346
N-(Coumarin-4-yl)-L-proline[CPRO-1], readily prepared from commercially available Cbz-L-proline and 4-hydroxycoumarin, was proved to be an efficient and useful chiral derivatizing agent by 1H NMR inspection of the resulting diastereomeric esters and amides.