Epoxy allylic ether synthesis

Allyl chloride is used to make intermediates for downstream derivatives such as resins and polymers. Approximately 90% of allyl chloride production is used to synthesize epichlorohydrin, which is used as a basic building block for epoxy resins and in glycerol synthesis. Allyl chloride is also a starting material for allyl ethers of phenols, bisphenol A and phenolic resins, and for some allyl esters. Other compounds made from allyl chloride are quaternary amines used in chelating agents and quaternary ammonium salts, which are used in water clarification and sewage sludge flocculation (Kneupper Saathoff, 1993). 

Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) is primarily used as a reactive flame retardant in epoxy resin circuit boards. Both hydroxyl groups on TBBPA can be reacted with epichlorohydrin under basic conditions to form the diglycidyl ether, which is widely used in epoxy resin formulations. TBBPA is also used in polycarbonate and ether polyester resins and is used as a chemical intermediate for the synthesis of tetrabromobisphenol A allyl ether, -bis(2-hydroxyethyl ether), -carbonate oligomer, and -diglycidyl ether. TBBA is also used as a flame retardant in plastics, paper, and textiles, and as a plasticizer in adhesives and coatings. 

The primaiy use of TBBPA is as a flame letaidant in epoxy resin eireuit boards and in eleetrraiie enelosures made of poly-carbonate-aciylonitrile-butadiene-slyrene (PC-ABS). Other applieations of TBBPA inelude its use as a flame retardant for plastics, paper, and textiles as a plastieizer in adhesives and eoatings and as a ehemieal intermediate for the synthesis of other flame retardants (e.g., TBBPA allyl ether). It has also been applied to carpeting and office fiimiture as a flame retardant. 

The synthesis of the trisubstituted cyclohexane sector 160 commences with the preparation of optically active (/ )-2-cyclohexen-l-ol (199) (see Scheme 49). To accomplish this objective, the decision was made to utilize the powerful catalytic asymmetric reduction process developed by Corey and his colleagues at Harvard.83 Treatment of 2-bromocyclohexenone (196) with BH3 SMe2 in the presence of 5 mol % of oxazaborolidine 197 provides enantiomeri-cally enriched allylic alcohol 198 (99% yield, 96% ee). Reductive cleavage of the C-Br bond in 198 with lithium metal in terf-butyl alcohol and THF then provides optically active (/ )-2-cyclo-hexen-l-ol (199). When the latter substance is treated with wCPBA, a hydroxyl-directed Henbest epoxidation84 takes place to give an epoxy alcohol which can subsequently be protected in the form of a benzyl ether (see 175) under standard conditions. 

Compatibility of asymmetric epoxidation with acetals, ketals, ethers, and esters has led to extensive use of allylic alcohols containing these groups in the synthesis of polyoxygenated natural products. One such synthetic approach is illustrated by the asymmetric epoxidation of 15, an allylic alcohol derived from (S)-glyceraldehyde acetonide [59,62]. In the epoxy alcohol (16) obtained from 15, each carbon of the five-carbon chain is oxygenated, and all stereochemistry has been controlled. The structural relationship of 16 to the pentoses is evident, and methods leading to these carbohydrates have been described [59,62a]. 

The epoxy alcohol 47 is a squalene oxide analog that has been used to examine substrate specificity in enzymatic cyclizations by baker s yeast [85], The epoxy alcohol 48 provided an optically active intermediate used in the synthesis of 3,6-epoxyauraptene and marmine [86], and epoxy alcohol 49 served as an intermediate in the synthesis of the antibiotic virantmycin [87], In the synthesis of the three stilbene oxides 50, 51, and 52, the presence of an o-chloro group in the 2-phenyl ring resulted in a lower enantiomeric purity (70% ee) when compared with the analogs without this chlorine substituent [88a]. The very efficient (80% yield, 96% ee) formation of 52a by asymmetric epoxidation of the allylic alcohol precursor offers a synthetic entry to optically active 11 -deoxyanthracyclinones [88b], whereas epoxy alcohol 52b is one of several examples of asymmetric epoxidation used in the synthesis of brevitoxin precursors [88c]. Diastereomeric epoxy alcohols 54 and 55 are obtained in combined 90% yield (>95% ee each) from epoxidation of the racemic alcohol 53 [89], Diastereomeric epoxy alcohols, 57 and 58, also are obtained with high enantiomeric purity in the epoxidation of 56 [44]. The epoxy alcohol obtained from substrate 59 undergoes further intramolecular cyclization with stereospecific formation of the cyclic ether 60 [90]. 

The epoxy alctrfiol (97), a key intermediate in the synthesis of maytansine, has been prepared through Ti-catalyzed epoxidadon of (95 equation S6). The alcohol (95) exists predominantly in confoimation (162), with the allylic hydrogen at C-4 and the ir-bond very nearly eclipsed. The oxygens of the alcohol and silyl ether which are located below the plane the ir bond complex with Ti this complex blocks the approach of the epoxidizing reagent fitom the a-fu and hence the P-epoxide is fmmed. It is of interest to note that the ir-facial selectivity resulting fiom this route is the opposite of the ir-facial selectivity observed in MCPBA epoxidadon (see equadon 33). 

The aim of this work was to examine the catalytic activity of rhodium siloxide complexes in the hydrosilylation of allyl glycidyl ether by triethoxysilane and hydro(poly)siloxanes, leading to optimization of procedures for the synthesis of epoxy-functional silanes and siloxanes. 

Pregnane Series. Steroid allyl and propargyl enol ethers tindergo the Claisen rearrangement. - Surprisingly, cyanogen bromide reacts with 18-hydroxy-20-dimethylamino steroids to form the corresponding 18,20-epoxy deri-vatives. Additional work has been reported on the synthesis of l8-methyl steroids. ... 

The synthetic utility of (i )-enoate 392 is illustrated in the stereoselective synthesis of the bengamide E derivative 399 (Scheme 88). Silyl protection of 392, reduction with DIBAL, and Sharpless epoxidation of the resulting allylic alcohol furnishes epoxy alcohol 396 as a 95 5 anti syn mixture. Conversion of the primary hydroxyl group of 396 to an iodide under neutral conditions followed by a metallation-elimination and subsequent in situ methylation provides the ether 397. Ozonolysis, desilylation with aqueous acetic acid, and a Dess-Martin oxidation supplies the a,jS-dialkoxy aldehyde 398. This, utilizing stannane Se addition, is then converted to 399 [135]. 

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