Epoxidations with dimethyldioxirane

Expedient removal of the volatiles after the epoxidation with dimethyldioxirane is crucial to achieve reproducible yields because the epoxide is extremely water sensitive. 

Dimethyloxazolidines have been utilized as chiral auxiliaries for the diastere-oselective functionalization of the optically active tiglic acid derivatives by means of epoxidation with dimethyldioxirane (DMD) or m-CPBA and ene reactions with 02 or 4-phenyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione (PTAD). In the DMD and m-CPBA epoxidations, high diastereoselectivities but opposite senses of diastereomer selection was observed. In contrast, the stereochemistry of the 102 and PTAD ene reactions depended on the size of the attacking enophile whereas essentially perfect diastereoselectivity was obtained with PTAD, much lower stereoselection was observed with 02. The stereochemical results for the DMD and m-CPBA epoxidations and the PTAD ene reaction are explained in terms of the energy differences for the corresponding diastereomeric transition states, dictated by steric and electronic effects.200... 

Conversion of 26 to the protected thioethyl glycosyl donors 27 was achieved through epoxidation with dimethyldioxirane to yield the 1,2-anhydro sugar, followed... 

An in situ method for epoxidations with dimethyldioxirane using buffered aqueous acetone solutions of Oxone has been widely applied.The epoxidation of 1-dodecene is particularly impressive in view of the difficulty generally encountered in the epoxidation of relatively unreactive terminal alkenes (eq 7). A biphasic procedure using benzene as a cosolvent and a phase-transfer... 

The stereochemical outcome of the epoxidation can be rationalized by a spiro transition state model. Two extreme epoxidation modes, spiro and planar, are known for epoxidation with dimethyldioxirane, and the spiro transition state is the optimal transition state for oxygen atom transfer from... 

Glycal related dienes like 19, prepared by base treatment of the corresponding 6-<9-mesyl glycals have been described as substrates for epoxidation with dimethyldioxirane, mid are usefiil precursors for making the protein kinase C inhibitor, staurosporine. ... 

Spiro transition state is proposed to be the major transition state for the epoxidation with dimethyldioxirane based on the observation that ds-hexene is epoxidized 7-9 times fester than trans-hexene (a) Baumstark, A.L and McCloskey, C.J. 

Fullerene epoxide, C )0, is formed by the UV irradiation of an oxygenated benzene solution of Cfio The O atom bridges a 6 6 bond of the closed fullerene structure. The same compound is also formed as one of the products of the reaction of Cgo with dimethyldioxirane, Mc2COO (see later). ... 

Epoxidation of allenes.1 The spirodioxides formed by epoxidation of allenes are unstable to acids, and only hindered ones have been obtained on epoxidation with peracids. They can be obtained, however, in 90-95% yield by epoxidation of allenes (even monosubstituted ones) with dimethyldioxirane in acetone buffered with solid K2C03. 

Epoxidation of amidoallenes with dimethyldioxirane leads to allene oxides as reactive intermediates which can be trapped with dienes in a [4+ 3]-cycloaddition reaction. Exposure of a mixture of amidoallene 177 with cydopentadiene to a small excess of dimethyldioxirane at -45 °C produced endo-bicydooctanone 178 in 60% yield (Eq. 13.60) [69]. The allene oxide is electrophilic, since no reaction takes place with methyl acrylate. 

All attempts to achieve a direct transformation of the carbazomadurins A (253) and B (254), as well as the disilyl-protected carbazomadurins A (769a) and B (769b), into the epocarbazolins A (258) and B (259) were unsuccessful and resulted in complete decomposition. Therefore, prior to the epoxidation, the disilyl-protected carbazomadurins A (769a) and B (769b) were transformed to the corresponding trisilyl-protected carbazomadurins A (770) and B (771) by treatment with TPS chloride in the presence of stoichiometric amounts of 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine (DMAP). Epoxidation of the fully protected carbazomadurins A (770) and B (771) with dimethyldioxirane at — 20°C, followed by desilylation, provided racemic epocarbazolin A (258) and epocarbazolin B (259) (605) (Scheme 5.82). 

CgoO (1) can also be prepared by allowing toluene solutions of CgQ to react with dimethyldioxirane (Scheme 8.3) [28], The so-obtained product is identical to that prepared by photochemical epoxidation [15], Upon treatment of CgQ with dimethyldioxirane, a second product is formed simultaneously (Scheme 8.3), which was identified to be the 1,3-dioxolane 6. Upon heating 6 in toluene for 24 h at 110 °C, no decomposition could be observed by HPLC, implying that 1 and 6 are formed by different pathways. Replacement of dimethyldioxirane with the more reactive methyl(trifluoromethyl)dioxirane allows much milder reaction conditions [29]. At 0 °C and a reaction time of only some minutes this reaction renders a CgQ conversion rate of more than 90% and higher yields for CgoO as well as for the higher oxides. 

The numbers in brackets for propylene, isobutylene, iJ-2-butene and 1,3-butadiene entries are at the QCISD(T)//QCISD/6-31G(d) level of theory QCISD(T)/6-31G(d)//B3LYP/6-311- -G(3df,2p) gas-phase intrinsic barriers (AE ) for the epoxidation of -2-butene with dimethyldioxirane (DMDO) and peroxyformic acid are 14.3 and 13.2 kcalmol respectively. 

TABLE 4. B3LYP/6-31G(d) activation barriers (AE, kcal mol ) for the epoxidation of a series of alkenes with dimethyldioxirane (DMDO) and methyl(trifluoromethyl)dioxirane (TFDO). The barriers in parentheses are at the B3LYP/6-31- -G(d,p) level of theory. Other computational approaches are indicated by footnotes. The barriers have been computed with respect to isolated reactants... 

TABLE 5. Calculated [B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p)] activation parameters (kcal mol and eu) for the epoxidation of cyclohexene and isobutene with dimethyldioxirane (DMDO), peroxybenzoic add (PBA), m-chloroperoxybenzoic add (m-CPBA) and peroxyformic acid (PFA). Solvent corrections were performed with the COSMO model. The numbers in bold are experimental values -Numbers in parentheses are at the B3LYP/6-311- -G(3df,2p)//B3LYP/6-311- -G(d,p) level of theory... 

In the present work, the Jacobsen s catalyst was immobilized inside highly dealuminated zeolites X and Y, containing mesopores completely surrounded by micropores, and in Al-MCM-41 via ion exchange. Moreover, the complex was immobilized on modified silica MCM-41 via the metal center and through the salen ligand, respectively. cis-Ethyl cinnamate, (-)-a-pinene, styrene, and 1,2-dihydronaphtalene were used as test molecules for asymmetric epoxidation with NaOCl, m-CPBA (m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid), and dimethyldioxirane (DMD) generated in situ as the oxygen sources. 

TABLE 6. Classical reaction barriers (AE, kcal mol ) for ethylene epoxidation with peroxy-formic acid (PFA) and dimethyldioxirane (DMDO) at various levels of theory... 

The preparation of the allene bis-epoxide 1 started with isovaleraldehyde 9. Addition of the protected propargyl alcohol 10 under the Carreira conditions led to 11 in > 95% . Mesylation followed by displacement with methyl cuprate provided the allene without loss of enantiomeric excess. Oxidation of the allene 12 with dimethyldioxirane could have led to any of the four diastereomers of the spiro bis epoxide. In the event, only two diastereomers were observed, as a 3 1 mixture. That 1 was the major diastereomer followed from its conversion to 3. The configuration of the minor diastereromer was not noted. Exposure of 1 to nucleophilic azide then gave the easily-purified 2. 

Simple allenes (209) react with dimethyldioxirane (200) to give the corresponding spiro-dioxides 210 in instances where diastereoisomeric spiro-dioxides are possible, there is usually an acceptable stereochemical preference for epoxidation to occur anti to the alkyl substituents324,325. Allenic alcohol 211 yields the highly functionalized tetrahydro-furan 212 and tetrahydropyran derivatives by intramolecular nucleophilic addition of the hydroxy group to an intermediate allene diepoxide324. 

A mixture of epoxides 483 obtained on oxidation of 482 with dimethyldioxirane, when exposed to ferric chloride provided, as the kinetically controlled product, the a-aldehyde 484, which without purification was reduced to the a-alcohol 485. The exclusive formation of 484 is believed to occur via the benzyl cation 486, generated by Lewis-acid opening of the oxirane ring, suffering a stereospecific kinetic 1,2-hydride shift The amino alcohol 487 obtained after sequential removal of O-benzyl and N-tosyl groups from 485, on treatment with triphenylphosphine and iodine in the presence of imidazole furnished the tetracyclic base 488, which was oxidised to the ketone 489. Trapping of the kinetically generated enolate of 489 as the silylether, followed by palladium diacetate oxidation yielded the enone 490. The derived... 

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