Abstract
New amino acids, (±)-t-3, t-4-bis(carboxymethyl)-r-2-pyrrolidinecarboxylic acid (1d) and (±)-t-3a, t-6a-perhydro-r-1, t-4, t-6-cyclopenta[c]pyrroletricarboxylic acid (2), which possess relatively similar configurations to kainic acid, were synthesized from readily available Diels-Alder adducts.