Hd. Ambrosi et al., HYDROGENATION OF DIMETHYL-1,3-DIOXOLAN-4-YL)-AZIRIDINE-2-CARBOXYLIC ACID ETHYL-ESTER, Tetrahedron letters, 35(41), 1994, pp. 7613-7616
Hydrogenation of 1-benzyl-aziridine-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester 1 yi
elded the enantiomerically pure 1H-aziridine 2 or the beta-amino acid
ester 3 as main products depending on the reaction time. The Z-protect
ed derivatives of 2 and 3 were transformed into the gamma-lactones 4 a
nd 5, respectively.