Selective Rhodium-Catalyzed Insertion of Carbon Monoxide into the Nitrogen-Oxygen Bond of Isoxazolidines. New Reduction, Migration, and Rearrangement Reactions Catalyzed by Iridium Complexes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00130a013

Reaction of isoxazolidines with carbon monoxide in benzene, catalyzed by the dimer of chloro(1,5-cyclooctadiene)rhosium, results in the formation of tetrahydro-1,3-oxazin-2-ones as the major or only product, often in fine yields.A novel conversion of 3-ar