Epoxide monosubstituted

This reaction works well with monosubstituted epoxides ... 

A somewhat more complex theophylline derivative includes both the purinone nucleus and a piperazine side chain more commonly associated with HI antihistaminic compounds. The starting epoxide, 66, is available from treatment of the anion of purinone 65 with epichlorohydrin. Alkylation of the epoxide with monosubstituted piperazine derivative 67, leads to tazifylline (68) [11]. 

Jacobsen also showed that 2,2-disubstituted epoxides underwent kinetic resolution catalyzed by (salen)Cr-N3 complex 3 under conditions virtually identical to those employed with monosubstituted epoxides (Scheme 7.34) [64]. Several epoxides in this difficult substrate class were obtained with high ees and in good yields, as were the associated ring-opened products. The kinetic resolution of TBS-... 

At first, the reaction was characterized as most effective in the epoxidation of cw-disubstituted olefins.86 Later, the scope of this reaction was expanded to include the highly enantioselective synthesis of hYwiv-dis ubstitutcd8 7 and tri-substituted epoxides,88 as well as certain monosubstituted epoxides.89 The first example of nondirect asymmetric epoxidation of tetrasubstituted olefins has also appeared.90... 

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. 

The formation of THF derivatives through SH2 reaction with mono- and disubstituted olefins was also investigated to define the overall scope of the transformation. Some of our results are summarized in Table 8. Not surprisingly, the monosubstituted alkene 53 gave essentially none of the desired 54 (5%). It is well known that the primary radicals produced during the 5-exo cyclization are rapidly trapped by Cp2TiCl to yield the products of a reductive cyclization [17-20,65,66,73,74]. Epoxides containing disubstituted... 

When allenyl aldehydes are allowed to react with DMDO, the aldehyde moiety is not oxidized to the acid except for monosubstituted allenes [21]. In all other cases, the carbonyl oxygen participates as a nucleophile in the opening of the intermediate epoxide. From 2,2,5-trimethy]-3,4-hexadienal 67, for example, five different products can be synthesized selectively under different reaction conditions (Scheme 17.22). When p-toluenesulfonic acid (TsOH) is present or DMDO is formed in situ, then the initially formed allene (mono)oxide reacts with the aldehyde moiety to give 68 or 69. In the presence of excess DMDO and the absence of acid, three other products (70-72) can be formed via the spirodioxide intermediate. These reactions, however, seem to be less general compared with similar reactions of allenyl acids and allenyl alcohols. y-Allenylaldehydes 73 can be cyclized to five-membered hemiacetals 74 via the spirodioxide intermediate. 

G. Bellucci, C. Chiappe, F. Marioni, M. Benetti, Regio- and Enantioselectivity of the Cytosolic Epoxide Hydrolase-Catalysed Hydrolysis of Racemic Monosubstituted Alkyloxiranes ,./. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1 1991, 361 - 363 G. Bellucci, C. Chiappe, L. Conti, F. Marioni, G. Pierini, Substrate Enantioselection in the Microsomal Epoxide Hydrolase Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Monosubstituted Oxiranes. Effects of Branching of Alkyl Chains ,./. Org. Chem. 1989, 54, 5978 - 5983. 

However, disappointingly low selectivity was observed with monosubstituted aliphatic epoxides such as 1-epoxyoctane (la, E<5) or benzyl glycidyl ether (le, <2) [51,55]. On the other hand, sterically more demanding 2,2-disubsti-tuted oxiranes (2) turned out to be much better substrates (Scheme 9, Table 2). 

The kinetics of the catalytic oxidation of cyclopentene to glutaraldehyde by aqueous hydrogen peroxide and tungstic acid have been studied and a compatible mechanism was proposed, which proceeds via cyclopentene oxide and /3-hydroxycyclopentenyl hydroperoxide. " Monosubstituted heteropolytungstate-catalysed oxidation of alkenes by t-butyl hydroperoxide, iodosobenzene, and dioxygen have been studied a radical mechanism was proved for the reaction of alkenes with t-BuOOH and O2, but alkene epoxidation by iodosobenzene proceeds via oxidant coordination to the catalyst and has a heterolytic mechanism. ... 

The table, which collects representative examples, shows that monosubstituted epoxides afford homoaUyhc alcohols resulting from the attack to the less substituted carbon atom (runs 1, 5 and 7). HomoaUyhc alcohols are useful intermediates in several important total synthesis." Disubstituted epoxides fail to react (run 4). Styrene oxide leads to a mixture of homoaUyhc alcohols (run 2) and ally lie epoxides give mixture of 1,2- and 1,4-opening product, with predominance of the 1,4 product (run 3, 6 and 8). 

Epoxides also undergo the Ritter reaction in good yields with retention of configuration via a episulfonium intermediate 190a (double-inversion process). For monosubstituted epoxides, the yields of oxazolines are lower due to nondis-criminatory attack of the nitrile on both the primary and the secondary carbon atom of the episulfonium intermediate. Complete retention of configuration is still observed despite the lower yield (Scheme 8.54). 

Generally monosubstituted and dx-l,2-disubstituted epoxides are good substrates for EH while tri-, tetra or tra s-l,2-disubstituted ones are poor or non-substrates. Resolutions of epoxides using microsomal epoxide hydrolases, mEHs show that cis-2-alkyl substituted styrene oxides gave very high E-values when R=Me or Et (Figure 2.18a). A series of cis-... 

Other reagents have also been used to effect carbon-carbon bond formation. For example, chiral monosubstituted epoxides (93) can be regioselectively carbomethoxylated under relatively mild conditions with CO/H, in the presence of the salen complex 69. The reaction proceeds with retention of chirality about the secondary epoxide carbon and represents a new route to chiral hydroxy esters 94 <99JOC2164>. 

Deprotonation of complex 1 with butyllithium at — 78 °C generates the enolate species 2 (described in Section 1.1.1.3.4.1.1.), which reacts with electrophiles while in the anti conformation (acyl oxygen anti to carbon monoxide oxygen). Enolate 2 is inert to 1,2-epoxypropane (3a) at — 78 °C, but in the presence of a Lewis acid, rapid reaction ensues leading to preferred alkylation of the least hindered site of the epoxide13. Reaction of the enolate 2, derived from the racemic complex 1, with racemic monosubstituted epoxides results in preferential formation of one of two possible diastereomers this can be termed a double enantiomer-differentiating reaction. 

Enolate species 6, derived from 1-oxopropyl complex 5, reacts similarly with monosubstituted epoxides. Under the influence of diethylaluminum chloride, only the diastereomers 7 and 8 were observed in the reaction mixture 7 was the major product. The use of boron trifluoride - diethyl ether complex instead of diethylaluminum chloride caused a complete loss of stereocontrol at C , producing a 50 50 mixture of diastereomers 7 and 8, but stereocontrol at C was retained as no other diastereomers were produced. The major diastereomer produced is consistent with the intermediacy of a transition state like that represented in Newman projection C which has the usual anti-E-snolate geometry and lacks the R methyl gauche interaction of structure D. 

Reactions of the enolate derived from enantiomerically pure 5 with enantiomerically pure monosubstituted epoxides 3 are also shown in the table on p 952 it is noteworthy that very high selectivities are obtained regardless of the relative configurations of the two chiral reactants. 

NOES (1999) National Occupational Exposure Survey 1981-83. Unpublished data as of July 1999. Cincinnati, OH, Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Inshtute for Occupational Safety and Health Nomeir, A.A., Silveira, D.M., Ferrala, N.F., Markham, P.M., McComish, M.F., Ghanayem, B.l. Chadwick, M. (1995) Comparahve disposition of 2,3-epoxy-l-propanol (glycidol) in rats following oral and intravenous administration. J. Toxicol, environ. Health, 44, 203-217 Norppa, H., Hemminki, K., Sorsa, M. Vainio, H. (1981) Effect of monosubstituted epoxides on chromosome aberrations and SCE in cultured human lymphocytes. Mutat Res., 91, 243-250... 

Epoxides such as 10 can be prepared in high enantiomeric purity, by, inter alia, kinetic resolution. David Hodgson of Oxford University has demonstrated (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, /26,8664) that on exposure to LTMP, monosubstituted epoxides are smoothly converted into the corresponding alkoxy carbenc or alkoxy carbenoid. When an alkene is available for insertion, the cyclopropane, in this case 11, is formed with high diastereocontrol. This represents a powerful new approach to enantioselective ring construction. It is possible that in the absence of a target alkene, the intermediate alkoxy carbene could divert to intramolecular C-H insertion, which might also proceed with substantial diastereocontrol. 

Norppa, H., Hemminki, K., Sorsa, M. Vainio, H. (1981) Effect of monosubstituted epoxides on chromosome aberrations and SCE in cultured human lymphocytes. Mutat. Res., 91, 243-250... 

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