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A highly diastereoselective intramolecular hydroamination is the key step in a modular synthesis of 2,6-disubstituted piperazines. The requisitehydroamination substrates were prepared in excellent yields by nucleophilic displacement of cyclic sulfamidates derived from amino acids.A variety of alkyl and aryl substituents at the 2-position were tolerated. The stereochemistry of the piperazines was determined to be
transby X-ray crystallography, which also showed the preferred conformation of the 2,6-disubstituted piperazine to be a twist-boat due to A
1,3strain.