The 2,6-disubstituted piperidine alkaloids (+)-dihydropinidine (1), (−)-epidihydropinidine (2) (as HCl salts), and (−)-pinidinone (3) were efficiently synthesized from (S)-epichlorohydrin (7) as common substrate using regioselective Wacker−Tsuji oxidation of alkenylazides 10 and 14 as well as a highly diastereoselective reduction of cyclic imine 11 as key steps. The protecting group free total syntheses