Abstract
A comparison of the diastereomeric composition of Kabachnik–Fields reaction products with those of two reactions simulating its stereo-controlling steps showed that only the ‘imine’ mechanism works in the (MeO)2P(O)H–PhCHO-[(S),(R,S)-H2NCH(Ph)Me] system, like in the phosphite–imine system; in a similar system containing (R,S)-sec-butylamine, additional ‘nucleophilic amination’ of the initially formed α-hydroxybenzyl phosphonate occurs.
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