The (dia)stereoselectivity (within limits of 1H NMR detection in the crude reaction mixture) of the process was affected neither by the reaction solvent nor by the amount of DIBAL-H employed. It is known from the literature that some racemization of enantiomerically pure aldehydes occurs during the DIBAL-H treatment. Although we have demonstrated earlier that no loss of enantiomeric purity was observed in the synthesis of anti-β-amino alcohols [16], we submitted commercially available DL-alanine to the aforementioned one- pot procedure to give rac-2a. Both rac-2a and 2a were analyzed by chiral HPLC. The analysis confirmed that the enantiomeric purity was not affected by the process.