Ethyl and tert-butyl azidoformdte added to 7-oxabicyclo[2.2.l]hept-5-en-2-onc dimethyl (5) and dibenzyl(6) acetals to give mixtures of regioisomeric triazolines. The latter gave the corresponding aziridines (6,6-dialkoxy-3-aza-8-oxatricyclo Introduction. ~ Recently, we proposed a total synthesis of D-and L-allose based on the double hydroxylation of the readily obtainable 7-oxabicyclo[2.2.l]hept-5-en-2-y1 derivatives 1 (derived from furan and (IS)-camphanic acid) and 2 (derived from furan and (1R)-camphanic acid), respectively [5]. E.g., 1 can be converted stereospecifically into ketone 3 which is then transformed via epoxidation of its (tert -butyl)dimethylsilyl enol ether into D-allose (4). Since 3-amino-3-deoxyhexoses are parts of many biologically active natural [6] [7] and unnatural products [8], we were interested in extending our approach to the stereoselective total synthesis of these important sugars. With this goal in mind, we have developed a method for the stereospecific amino-hydroxylation of the C(5)=C(6) bond in 7-oxabicyclo[2.2.l]hept-5-en-2-yl derivatives which allows us to report now the first total synthesis of derivatives of 3-amino-3-deoxyaltrose.