A phosphine-mediated construction of 1,4-oxazepines and 1,3-oxazines.

A simple and efficient method for constructing 1,4-oxazepines and 1,3-oxazines was developed with use of a phosphine-mediated tandem reaction of ynones with 2-azido alcohols. The method offers a promising route to synthetically useful as well as biologically active heterocycles under mild conditions and may be exploited for the preparation of interesting chiral ligands.