diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/animation/animation_compiler.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/animation/animation_compiler.ts
index 5e48d7623d..66682d7170 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/animation/animation_compiler.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/animation/animation_compiler.ts
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class _AnimationBuilder implements AnimationAstVisitor {
     ast.styles.forEach(entry => {
       const entries =
           Object.keys(entry).map((key): [string, o.Expression] => [key, o.literal(entry[key])]);
-      stylesArr.push(o.literalMap(entries));
+      stylesArr.push(o.literalMap(entries, null, true));
     });
 
     return o.importExpr(createIdentifier(Identifiers.AnimationStyles)).instantiate([
@@ -322,12 +322,13 @@ class _AnimationBuilder implements AnimationAstVisitor {
       if (isPresent(value)) {
         const styleMap: any[] = [];
         Object.keys(value).forEach(key => { styleMap.push([key, o.literal(value[key])]); });
-        variableValue = o.literalMap(styleMap);
+        variableValue = o.literalMap(styleMap, null, true);
       }
       lookupMap.push([stateName, variableValue]);
     });
 
-    const compiledStatesMapStmt = this._statesMapVar.set(o.literalMap(lookupMap)).toDeclStmt();
+    const compiledStatesMapStmt =
+        this._statesMapVar.set(o.literalMap(lookupMap, null, true)).toDeclStmt();
     const statements: o.Statement[] = [compiledStatesMapStmt, fnStatement];
 
     return new AnimationEntryCompileResult(this.animationName, statements, fnVariable);
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/output/output_ast.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/output/output_ast.ts
index 867d19258e..9f31466f32 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/src/output/output_ast.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/src/output/output_ast.ts
@@ -894,8 +894,10 @@ export function literalArr(values: Expression[], type: Type = null): LiteralArra
   return new LiteralArrayExpr(values, type);
 }
 
-export function literalMap(values: [string, Expression][], type: MapType = null): LiteralMapExpr {
-  return new LiteralMapExpr(values.map(entry => new LiteralMapEntry(entry[0], entry[1])), type);
+export function literalMap(
+    values: [string, Expression][], type: MapType = null, quoted: boolean = false): LiteralMapExpr {
+  return new LiteralMapExpr(
+      values.map(entry => new LiteralMapEntry(entry[0], entry[1], quoted)), type);
 }
 
 export function not(expr: Expression): NotExpr {
diff --git a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/output/ts_emitter_spec.ts b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/output/ts_emitter_spec.ts
index 2b59a0dd1c..3a6d6cdf22 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/compiler/test/output/ts_emitter_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/compiler/test/output/ts_emitter_spec.ts
@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ export function main() {
       expect(emitStmt(o.literalMap([['someKey', o.literal(1)]]).toStmt())).toEqual(`{someKey: 1};`);
     });
 
+    it('should apply quotes to each entry within a map produced with literalMap when true', () => {
+      expect(
+          emitStmt(
+              o.literalMap([['a', o.literal('a')], ['*', o.literal('star')]], null, true).toStmt())
+              .replace(/\s+/gm, ''))
+          .toEqual(`{'a':'a','*':'star'};`);
+    });
+
     it('should support blank literals', () => {
       expect(emitStmt(o.literal(null).toStmt())).toEqual('(null as any);');
       expect(emitStmt(o.literal(undefined).toStmt())).toEqual('(undefined as any);');