A. Patwardhan, Zhenjie Lu, Reddy Pulgam
May 26, 2005
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Organic letters
Abstract
[reaction: see text]. N-Benzhydryl aziridines-2-carboxylates can be readily obtained from the catalytic asymmetric aziridination reaction from N-benzhydrylimines and ethyl diazoacetate. Cleavage of the benzhydryl group by hydrogenolysis leads to ring opening when R = aryl. Surprisingly, ozone will selectively oxidize the benhydryl group in these aziridines even when R is an aryl group. This allows for a new deprotection strategy for these aziridines whose generality is explored.