“…2 There are a myriad of reactions and transformations stereoselectivilly-assisted by chiral oxazolines as for instance lactone synthesis, cyclopropanation, aziridination, Diels-Alder cycloaddition, allylic substitution, among others. 3 In face of its large application, the development of practical, economically attractive as well as environmental benign methods to prepare 2-oxazolines is constantly desirable. 4 In this work we describe a one-pot procedure to prepare 2-pyridil-2-oxazolines by reacting 2-cyanopyridine with chiral amino alcohols catalyzed by zinc acetate under pressure.…”