Several isoxazolidin-5-ones were synthesized in an addition - rearrang
ement reaction from corresponding sugar lactones and hydroxylamines. T
he sign of the Cotton effect at ca. 220 nm can be correlated to the ab
solute configuration of the stereogenic center at C3 and can be predic
ted by Weigang's sector rule. X-ray diffraction study performed for 11
and 12 confirms the configuration at C3 to be 3S and 3R, respectively
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