Oxidation of chiral, camphidin-based allylic tertiary amines gives ris
e to chiral tertiary amine-N-oxides, which undergo the [2,3]Meisenheim
er rearrangement with high levels of stereoselectivity. Reductive N,O-
bond cleavage of the O-allyl-hydroxylamine gives access to the allylic
alcohol unit.