We have discovered that N-sulfonyl oxaziridines react with a broad range of olefins in the presence of iron salts to afford 1,3-oxazolidines. This process provides access to 1,2-aminoalcohols with the opposite sense of regioselectivity produced from the copper-catalyzed oxyamination previously reported from our labs. Thus, either regioisomeric form of 1,2-aminoalcohols can easily be obtained from the reaction of oxaziridines with olefins, and the sense of regioselectivity can be controlled by the appropriate choice of inexpensive, non-toxic first row transition metal catalyst.The osmium-catalyzed Sharpless aminohydroxylation 1,2 is a powerful method for the rapid transformation of alkenes into 1,2-aminoalcohols. 3 Due to the cost and toxicity of osmium salts, however, a variety of alternate methods for olefin oxyamination have been developed that utilize palladium 4 and copper 5 catalysts. We previously reported that N-sulfonyl oxaziridines ("Davis' oxaziridines") 6 react with olefins in the presence of copper(II) catalysts to afford 1,3-oxazolidines. 7 In this communication, we report that iron salts 8 are also effective catalysts for oxaziridine-mediated oxyamination but provide the opposite regiomeric outcome. Thus, the appropriate choice of inexpensive, nontoxic first-row transition metal in this transformation enables complementary access to 1,2-aminoalcohols in either regioisomeric form.