Racemic diaminosugars were easily obtained by a regio-and stereoselective three-step synthetis. In the first step, regiospecific hetero-Diels-Alder cycloadditions between 1,2-dihydropyridines l a and 10 and nitrosobenzene led to the bicyclic compounds 2a and 11, respectively. cis-Glycol formation starting from these latter adducts, followed by hydrogenolysis of the N -0 bond and by exhaustive acetylation of the OH-groups, led to the diaminolyxose 5, the diaminomannose 14 and the diaminoallose 15. When starting from benzyl 1,2-dihydropyridine-1-carboxylate (lb) and using the same reaction sequence, the racemic piperidine derivative 8 was obtained.Racemic 4,5-Diamino-4,5-dideoxy-lyxopyranose 4. -In a preliminary paper, we described a simple three-step synthesis of the racemic diamino-dideoxy-lyxopyranose [l] which is represented in formula 4 by its cc-D-enantiomer. The reaction sequence was straightforward: i) regiospecific Diels-Alder cycloaddition of dihydropyridine l a with