Reduction of N-alkoxycarbonyllactams with N ~B H ~/ H + in ethanol (Speckamp's condition] afforded a-ethoxyurethanes (Shono's compounds1 in good yields.New methods for the carbon-carbon bond formation at the a-position of m i n e s
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Nagasaka et al. (1986) studied this question.