Cyclohexene oxide, 2- reduction

By studying the NMR spectra of the products, Jensen and co-workers were able to establish that the alkylation of (the presumed) [Co (DMG)2py] in methanol by cyclohexene oxide and by various substituted cyclohexyl bromides and tosylates occurred primarily with inversion of configuration at carbon i.e., by an 8 2 mechanism. A small amount of a second isomer, which must have been formed by another minor pathway, was observed in one case (95). Both the alkylation of [Co (DMG)2py] by asymmetric epoxides 129, 142) and the reduction of epoxides to alcohols by cobalt cyanide complexes 105, 103) show preferential formation of one isomer. In addition, the ratio of ketone to alcohol obtained in the reaction of epoxides with [Co(CN)5H] increases with pH and this has been ascribed to differing reactions with the hydride (reduction to alcohol) and Co(I) (isomerization to ketone) 103) (see also Section VII,C). 

In the same study, several ligands variously functional on both the nitrogen and the sulfur atoms have been developed, providing a new class of cyclo-hexylamino sulfide ligands derived from cyclohexene oxide. All the ligands depicted in Scheme 9.7 were evaluated for the Ir-catalysed hydride-transfer reduction of acetophenone in the presence of i-PrOH as the hydrogen donor, providing enantioselectivities of up to 70% ee. 

Cyclopentanecarboxaldehyde has been prepared by the procedure described above 2 3 by the reaction of aqueous nitric acid and mercuric nitrate with cyclohexene 6 by the action of magnesium bromide etherate 6 or thoria 7 on cyclohexene oxide by the dehydration of frarei-l, 2-cyclohexanediol over alumina mixed with glass helices 8 by the dehydration of divinyl glycol over alumina followed by reduction 9 by the reaction of cyclopentene with a solution of [HFe(CO)4] under a carbon monoxide atmosphere 10 and by the reaction of cyclopentadiene with dicobalt octacarbonyl under a hydrogen and carbon monoxide atmosphere.11... 

It not tertiary, the product yield is lowered by transfer of the carbinol hydride ion to the aldehyde to produce a new alkoxide and an enolate ion. Thus, propylene oxide, after reductive cleavage with LDBB and trapping with isobutyraldehyde or p-anisaldehyde, provided 5-methyl-2,4-hexanediol in 40-50% yield or 1-p-anisyl-1,3-butanediol in 44% yield, respectively (in both cases about equal mixtures of diastereoisomers were obtained). The cyclohexene oxide-derived dianion, when trapped with isobutyraldehyde, gave 2-(1-hydroxy-2-methylpropyl)cyclohexanol in 71% yield as a mixture of only partially separable isomers in the ratio 15 11 39 35. 

A recent paper by Kwiatek and co-workers1891 discloses the use of a homogeneous catalysis system for the hydrogenation of epoxides. Reduction of cyclohexene oxide to cydohexanol, and of styrene oxide to 2-phenylethanol, was carried at atmospherio pressure, using Ks[Co(CN) ] to catalyze the reaction. 

Charge reversal in the electron transfer can be observed if donor sensitizers are employed. For example, photosolvolysis of cyclohexene oxide (135), may proceed through the epoxide radical anion. Analogous fragmentation from stilbene oxide and extrusion of SC>2 from benzylsulfone has been reported when amine sensitizers are employed (136). In fact, reductive electron transfer to cyclic sulfites or carbamates, eq. 49 (137),... 

Cyclohexenone, the major product of cyclohexene autoxidation was reduced to cyclohexanol and cyclohexenol in a ratio of 1 1.4 under the oxidation condition without oxygen, while cyclohexenol was not reduced appreciably. Thus, the reduction of cyclohexenone during the oxidation can account for only a part of the cyclohexanol formation in the TPPMn-NaBH4-02 reaction, and a much more important source of cyclohexanol seems to be cyclohexene oxide this is leased on the following observations (see Figure 11) ... 

On replacing PhH-EtOH mixed solvent by benzene, a small amount of cyclohexene oxide was detected in the TPP Mn-NaBH4-02 reaction products even in the presence of a large excess amount of NaBH4, probably because heterogeniety of the medium makes the reduction slow. 

The evidence in the case of styrene, where both modes of radiation-induced polymerization can be conveniently studied, is quite convincing that reduction of the concentration of water changes the predominating mode of propagation from purely free radical to essentially ionic. Evidence for an ionic propagation initiated by radiation has also been obtained in pure a-methylstyrene (3, 24), isobutylene (12, 32), cyclopenta-diene (5), / -pinene (2), 1,2-cyclohexene oxide (II), isobutyl vinyl ether (6), and nitroethylene (38), although the radical process in these monomers is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to study. 

Two new methods for thiirane reduction have been described. The first entails reduction with lithium(0) in refluxing DME <84iJC(B)879>. Both cyclohexene episulfide and cyclohexene oxide are cleanly converted to cyclohexene under these conditions, and both cis- and //wM-2,3-diphenyl-thiirane (or a mixture of isomers) gave only franj-stilbene. An explanation for the latter result was not stated. Cyclohexene was also formed quantitatively by treatment of cyclohexene sulfide with... 

The trithiocarbonates may prove useful as intermediates for the synthesis of sugar dithiols from epoxides. Ring opening by reductive cleavage with lithium aluminum hydride gives excellent results with aliphatic and ahcyclic trithiocarbonates. When both carbon atoms are secondary, the product is a iraws-dithiol for example, cyclohexene oxide, which is converted into a irans-trithiocarbonate, gives, on reduction, cyclo-hexane-1,2-dithiol. The reaction has been used in the cyclitol series for the preparation of 1,2-dithio-neo-inositol and 1,2-dithio-ir-inositol, from 1,2-anhydro-alZo-inositol. The inositol trithiocarbonates show pronounced Cotton effects in their optical rotatory-dispersion spectra. 

Whatever the mechanism of sulfoxide reduction, oxidized solvent molecules were observed in the photolysis of 9. For example, benzene is converted to phenol, cyclohexane to cyclohexene and cyclohexanol, and cyclohexene to cyclohexene oxide and 2-cyclohexenol [99]. Oxygen atom accounting ranges from fairly poor (ca. 1/3) to quantitative, depending on the solvent substrate. The stepwise and fairly selective nature of the oxidizing agent are suggested by... 

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