A practical route to 2,6-diazaspiro[3.3]heptanes is described by way of reductive amination of a readily available aldehyde with primary amines or anilines. Cyclisation proceeds in high yield and the methods reported are amenable to either library or large-scale synthesis.
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Hamza et al. (2007) studied this question.