“…1 Unlike 3,4-dialkyl-1,3,4-oxadiazolines, 2 these hydrazines are highly chemically stable; they form stable salts with acids and iodine methylates. In a case of 3,4-di-tert-butyl-1,3,4-oxadiazolidine, nitrogen inversion occurs by a dissociative mechanism with O-CH 2 bond cleavage, 3 whereas the activation parameters of 1,2-diisopropylpyrazolidine inversion (∆G ¹ = 67.7 kJ mol -1 , ∆H ¹ = 61.1 kJ mol -1 , ∆S ¹ = -22.2 J K -1 mol -1 ) testify to a pyramidal character of the process. On the basis of a comparative analysis of inversion barriers, we suggested 1 a more than twofold increase in the inversion barrier when transferring from 1,2-diisopropylpyrazolidine to a 1,2-di-tert-butyl analogue, that would provide an opportunity for obtaining the compound in an optically active form under normal conditions.…”