Aminomalonyl alanine compounds and use as dietary sweeteners

Seltzman, H., & Hsieh, Y. (1986). IPC No. U.S.Aminomalonyl alanine compounds and use as dietary sweeteners (Patent No. 4564528.)

Compounds having relatively long shelf lives in acidic aqueousmedia and which are useful as sweeteners have the formula ##STR1##or are pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X is --ORor --NHR, or --NH.sub.2, with R being alkyl having 3-10 carbonatoms.