The photochemical addition of nitrenes to cyclic vinylic ethers and unsaturated sugars, in the presence of alcohols, gave the products of alcoholysis of the aziridine intermediates. The reactivity and stereoselectivity of this addition is discussed. The application of this reaction to the synthesis of aminosugars is described.
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KOZLOWSKA‐GRAMSZ et al. (1982) studied this question.