“…A mechanistically related CIDT was published by Kaneka researchers, who developed a novel chiral glycine template 84 (Scheme 31). [83] The template precursor (2 R ,1' R )‐ 83 was prepared by a classic separation of diastereomers and a more efficient protocol was sought after. When a 1:1 diastereomeric mixture of imidazolidinone (2 RS ,1' R )‐ 83 was refluxed with a catalytic amount of trifluoroacetic acid in n ‐hexane/ethyl acetate, it epimerized, presumably via immonium intermediate 86 .…”