Tetrahedron: Asymmetry

Addition of dimethyloxosulfonium methylide to enantiomerically pure sulfinimines: Asymmetric synthesis of 2-substituted aziridines

FA Davis, P Zhou, CH Liang, RE Reddy

Index: Davis; Zhou; Liang; Reddy Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 1995 , vol. 6, # 7 p. 1511 - 1514

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Abstract

Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Diastereoselective addition of dimethyloxosulfonium methylide to chiral nonracemic pure sulfinimines 1 affords N-sulfinyl aziridines 3 in 58–70% de which are readily separated. The N-sulfinyl auxiliary in 3 was removed, without ring-opening, by treatment with MeLi.