“…The synthesis of substituted piperidines, piperidinones and indolizidines 1-5 is of importance because of their widespread occurrence in nature, their wide-ranging biological activity, and more recently for their conformational controlling properties. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Although a number of routes to these compounds have been reported, involving, for example, the elaboration of amino acids [15][16][17][18][19] or other chiral starting materials, [20][21][22][23][24][25][26] and chiral auxiliary mediated, 27-30 catalytic 31, 32 or desymmetrisation processes, [33][34][35] the most general strategies for piperidine synthesis appear to be the CN(R,S) method developed by Husson and Royer, 36 the 2,3-dihydro-4-pyridone strategy extensively developed by Comins,37,38 the bicyclic lactam methodology developed by Meyers, 39-41 and the chiral deprotonation mediated approach of Beak. 42 Of interest to us are such general approaches, enabling the preparation of piperidines, substituted at any or all of the ring carbons, in a diastereoselective and enantioselective manner, which are applicable to combinatorial or parallel synthetic technologies.…”