Diastereoselective addition-elimination reactions of lithium enolates of chiral N-acyloxazolidinones with 2-methylene-3-phenoxyalkanoates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0957-4166(95)00183-P

Addition-elimination reaction of lithium enolates 2 of N-acyloxazolidinones with 2-methylene-3-phenoxyalkanoates 3 and 10 proceeded diastereoselectively and regiospecifically to give chiral N-[(E)-4-alkoxycarbonyl-4-pentenoyl]oxazolidinones 4 and 12a, whi