Novel, diastereoselective synthesis of 3‐amino‐1‐alkanols

Abstract
Benzaldehyde adds to 1‐pyrrolidinylcyclohexene under mild conditions giving the amino ketone 3a. The unstable ketone was reduced to the epimeric alcohols 4 and 5, the stereochemistry of which was determined by 2D‐NMR correlation spectroscopy.