The addition of nucleophiles like lithium ester enolates 6 to oxiranecarbaldimines 1 leads to new oxiranyl-functionalised β-lactams 7 in excellent enantio- and diastereoselectivity. A simple one-pot procedure affords β-lactams (azetidin-2-ones) with three or four neighbouring stereogenic centres and unlike preference. Products resulting fromoxirane ring-opening reactions were not observed. An enantiomerically