Facile Synthesis of (S,S)‐1,2‐Diacylamides and (S,S)‐1,2‐Diamines with C 2‐Symmetry

Abstract A series of chiral vicinal tertiary diacylamides with C 2‐symmetry was synthesized from (S)‐α‐phenylethylamine, different aromatic aldehydes, and oxalyl chloride. The diacylamides obtained were then reduced to afford chiral vicinal diamines with C 2‐symmetry. We propose that the diacylamides existed in four stable conformational isomers in solution because of the dihedral angle between acylamide bonds.