N. Fujii et al., SYNTHESIS OF OPTICALLY PURE 2-AZIRIDINEMETHANOLS - VERSATILE SYNTHETIC BUILDING-BLOCKS, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 42(11), 1994, pp. 2241-2250
Synthesis of three cis-tl ans pairs of N-sulfonylated-2-aziridinemetha
nols starting from (S)-threonine, (R)-allothreonine, a chiral 2-amino
alcohol, or enantiomerically enriched 2,3-epoxy alcohols is described.
A synthetic route to N-tosyl- and N-mesyl-2-aziridinemethanols from (
R)- and (S)-serines is also presented.