A. Ortiz et al., HIGHLY REGIOSELECTIVE AND STEREOSELECTIVE FORMATION OF 2-HYDROXY-5,6-DIHYDRO-2H-1,4-OXAZINES - AN X-RAY AND C-13 NMR-STUDY, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 6(11), 1995, pp. 2715-2722
(-)-Norephedrine and (-)-norpseudoephedrine undergo condensation with
a wide variety of 1,2-diketones to yield;the corresponding 2-hydroxy-5
,6-dihydro-2H-1,4-oxazines with high regio- and stereoselectivity. The
X-ray structure analysis of five of the compounds studied shows that
the stereochemistry at the newly formed stereogenic center is S in all
cases.