Abstract
| - The first two stable enantiomerically pure chiral N-H oxaziridines, derived from camphor andfenchone, are shown to act as electrophilic sources of nitrogen upon reaction with various carbonnucleophiles. Nitrogen is transferred, together with the camphor/fenchone unit, when deprotonatedesters, malonates, and nitriles are used as nucleophiles. One of the ester or nitrile units in thesubstrate usually undergoes hydrolysis; a cyclic mechanism is proposed to account for thisobservation.
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