Wiley-VCH Verlag, ChemInform, 25(46), p. no-no, 2015
Royal Society of Chemistry, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 7(13), p. 2092-2099
DOI: 10.1039/c4ob02318h
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The use of carbonyl-stabilised ammonium ylides to access chiral glycidic amides and the corresponding aziridines has so far been limited to racemic trans-selective protocols. We herein report the development of an asymmetric approach to access such compounds with high levels of stereoselectivity using easily accessible chiral auxiliary-based ammonium ylides. The use of phenylglycinol as the chiral auxiliary was found to be superior compared to Evans or pseudoephedrine-based auxiliaries resulting in good to excellent stereoselectivities in both, epoxidation and aziridination reactions.