M. Reetz, W. K. Lee
Aug 31, 2001
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[reaction: see text] N,N-Dibenzylamino aldehydes have emerged as a highly useful class of chiral building blocks in synthetic organic chemistry. We envisioned the transformation of the N,N -dibenzylamino aldehydes to the corresponding aldimines followed by diastereoselective methylene transfer with a sulfonium ylide to obtain alpha-amino aziridines in high yields.