Carbenes, dioxirane preparation

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Asymmetric epoxidation The catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes has been the focus of many research efforts over the past two decades. The non-racemic epoxides are prepared either by enantioselective oxidation of a prochiral carbon-carbon double bond or by enantioselective alkylidenation of a prochiral C=0 bond (e.g. via a ylide, carbene or the Darzen reaction). The Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation (SAE) requires allylic alcohols. The Jacobsen epoxidation (using manganese-salen complex and NaOCl) works well with ds-alkenes and dioxirane method is good for some trans-alkenes (see Chapter 1, section 1.5.3). 

Silylenes 1 are highly reactive homologues of the carbenes, and we have been interested to compare the reactivity and primary products of the oxidation of these divalent species. In principal one can expect two different primary adducts of a silylene and molecular oxygen the formal "end-on" adducts silanone 0-oxide 2 or "side-on" adducts dioxasilirane 3 (Scheme 1). It was shown by numerous matrix studies [8-12], experiments in solution using time resolved spectroscopy [13-16], and a preparative scale synthesis in solution [17] that triplet as well as singlet carbenes yield carbonyl 0-oxides as the primary oxidation products, while dioxiranes are products of secondary photolysis. Ando et al. reported on the synthesis of the silanone 0-oxide 2e by the reaction of dimesitylsilylene le and O2 in solid argon [1]. This is so far the only experimental evidence for a silanone O-oxide. 

Sander and co-workers [94ACIE2212] have reported the first preparative-scale synthesis of a dioxirane via carbene oxidation. Thus, the relatively stable dimesityldioxirane 106 was prepared by the low-temperature O2 oxidation of carbene 104 in matrix isolation in CFCI3 an intermediate carbonyl oxide (105) was observed spectroscopically. 

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