Dialkyl dithiophosphates selectively ring open vinyl oxetanes in excellent yields under mild reaction conditions to form useful allylic thiophosphate products with high Z-selectivity.

In non-racemic (1R,2R)-(1,2-dialkyl)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane palladium dichloride complexes the C2 symmetry of the diamine ligand is broken, resulting in selective R,S-coordination.

some 2-iminothiazolidin-4-ones have been synthesized by the reaction of dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates with thiosemicarbazones. the reaction was performed in the presence of 10 mol% of triphenylphosphine and tetrabutylammonium bromide as a phase transfer catalyst in water as a green solvent. all the synthesized compounds were characterized by their physical and spectral data.

The chiral bicyclic lactam (2) derived from levulinic acid and (S)-valinol is sequentially alkylated and then cleaved to 2,2-dialkyl levulinaldehyde (5) which is cyclized to the title products (2) in > 99% ee.