One pot synthesis of amino acid derived chiral disubstituted morpholines and 1,4-oxazepanes via tandem aziridine/epoxide ring opening sequences.

A new one-pot synthetic strategy is described for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure cis-3,5-disubstituted morpholines and 3,6-disubstituted 1,4-oxazepanes via tandem aziridine/epoxide ring opening sequences. This new strategy describes how epoxy alcohols could act as both a nucleophile and an electrophile in a tandem fashion and undergo intermolecular regioselective ring opening of chiral aziridines for the first time.