and dianhydrocycloheptaneheptols 4 – ultimately available fromtropilidene– as intermediates en route to 1,4-cis-diaminotetra(di)deoxyheptitols is studied. With standard bivalent N nucleophiles (methyl-, benzylamine, hydrazines) the regioselective installation of two (e.g. 9, 34) amino functions has to compete with the generation of variously functionalized tropa-type 8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes (e.g