3- Bromotetrahydropyranyl ethers

The 3-bromotetrahydropyranyl ether was prepared from a 17-hydroxy steroid and 2,3-dibromopyran (pyridine, benzene, 20°, 24 h) it was cleaved by zinc/ethanol. ... 

White and coworkers used trans Addition of bromine and (-)-l-bomeol to 3,4-dihydro-2//-pyran to afford the stereoisomeric bomyl bromotetrahydropyranyl ethers (3) and (4 Scheme 44) which are employed in an enantioselective total synthesis of (-)-monic acid C (Scheme 5).10 A simple synthesis of 4-methylthio-l,2-dithiolane, the photosynthesis inhibitor of the green alga Chara globularis (Scheme 45),83 exploits the observation that allylic sulfides undergo rearrangement on addition of bromine.84 Block and Naganathan employed the trans addition of bromine to 4-thioacetoxycyclopentene as a key... 

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