1 Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland. elzbieta.wojaczynska@pwr.wroc.pl
Novel enantiopure policyclic nitrogen heterocycles have been obtained in the diastereoselective aza-Diels-Alder or Mannich reaction of dienes with imine formed in situ from ethyl glyoxylate and (1R,2R)-diaminocyclohexane.