temperature. Cleavage of the NN bond of the resulting hydrazines 3 and 8 with Raney-Ni/H2, or of the N-methoxycarbonylhydrazines 9 with Li/NH3, yield the amines 4 with 61–90% ee, the amines 11 with 45–96% de and 93 99% ee. The absolute configuration of the amines 11 was established by X-ray analysis of an appropriate MTPA derivative.