Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.133, No.25, 9730-9733, 2011
Chiral Bronsted Acid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Trisubstituted Aziridine Synthesis Using alpha-Diazoacyl Oxazolidinones
Despite the remarkable advances in catalytic asymmetric aziridinations over the past decades, establishing a general procedure for the stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted aziridines has remained an elusive goal. Chiral N-triflyl phosphoramide-catalyzed reactions of N-alpha-diazoacyl oxazolidinones and N-Boc imines were developed as a solution to this unmet challenge.