As part of our program to explore the utility of enehydroxylamines in 3,3′-sigmatropic rearrangements, 1. and 2. it was decided to study the base catalysed ring opening of N-acyloxaziridines 3. and 4. of type 1 (cf. Scheme 1). That prompted us to prepare 1 (R=Ph, R′=Me) by a recently
[Bathula, Surendar Reddy; Reddy, Muktapuram Prathap; Viswanadham, K. K. Durga Rao; Sathyanarayana, Pochampalli; Reddy, Maddi Sridhar European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013 , # 21 p. 4552 - 4557]