O. Dirat et al., Oxazoline-N-oxide mediated asymmetric cycloadditions. Recent progress in the stereoselective syntheses of beta-lactones and beta-lactams, PUR A CHEM, 72(9), 2000, pp. 1721-1737
Camphor-derived oxazoline-N-oxides are versatile dipoles in a new kind of a
symmetric [2+3] cycloadditions. Recent applications of this methodology all
owed the stereoselective syntheses of several beta -lactones natural produc
ts such as 1233A and tetrahydrolipstatine. Two formal syntheses of beta -la
ctams antibiotics, beta -methyl thienamycin and carpetimycin A, have also b
een achieved using this type of cycloaddition.