Enantioselective synthesis of optically pure (R)- and (S)-β-lysine via nitrone cycloaddition

Abstract

Optically pure (R)- and (S)-β-lysines have been obtained via cycloaddition of chiral nitrone (4) to vinyl acetate, followed by facile chromatographic separation of the four resulting acetates (5) into two pairs of C-5 epimers and conversion of each pair into diastereoisomerically pure isoxazolidinone (7a or b).