Ammonium Hydroxide → 2-Amino-3,3-dimethylbutanoic acid

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Ammonium hydroxide (50 mL, 30%) solution was placed in an autoclave and D-tert-leucine (5 g) was added. Autoclave was closed and the contents were heated to 85° C. under stirring for 12 hours. After cooling the solution was transferred and concentrated under vacuum at 55° C. The solid residue obtained was stirred with acetone (20 mL), filtered and dried to obtain DL-tert-leucine (4.6 g, 92% yield, L-isomer: 42%, D-isomer: 58%)

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