Methylmorpholine oxide

Similar hydroxylation-oxidations can be carried out using a catalytic amount of osmium tetroxide with A-methylmorpholine oxide-hydrogen peroxide or phenyliodosoacetate." A recent patent describes the use of triethylamine oxide peroxide and osmium tetroxide for the same sequence. Since these reactions are of great importance for the preparation of the di-hydroxyacetone side-chain of corticoids, they will be discussed in a later section. 

N-Methylmorpholine Oxide-Hydrogen Peroxide Oxidation. The preparation of A-methylmorpholine oxide-hydrogen peroxide is described in Reagents for Organic Synthesis by L. Fieser and M. Fieser. 

Peguy, A. el al., J. Appl. Poly, Science, 1990, 40(3/4), 429 Solutions of cellulose in wet methylmorpholine oxide can undergo exothermic reaction to the point of explosion if confined at elevated temperatures from about 120°C or if otherwise heated to 180°C. The reaction is catalysed by some metals, notably copper. 

The intermolecular PKR of an allenic compound with an alkyne Co2(CO)6 complex takes place under very mild conditions when N-methylmorpholine oxide (NMO) is used as a promoter, giving rise to ( )-4-heptylidene-2,3-dipropyl-2-cyclo-pentenone in 69% yield (Scheme 16.48) [50-53],... 

Reductive y-lactone ring opening, with concomitant desilylation at the tertiary position by LiAlH4, gave triol 17 in 80% yield. Finally, acetonide formation followed by oxidation with tetra-n-propylammonium perruthenate/A-methylmorpholine / /-oxide oxidation, led to the target aldehyde 19 in 80% overall yield. 

Methyl isocyanoacetate, 1470 iV-Methylmorpholine oxide, 1997 Nickel, Hydrogen, Oxygen, 4820 Nitric acid, Sulfur dioxide, 4436... 

Chabardes developed a process for the preparation of vitamin A and its intermediates, from cyclogeranylsulfone and Cio aldehyde-acetals [30]. For example, chlorocitral reacted with ethylene glycol, HC(OMe)3 and pyridinium tosylate to provide the chloroacetal (40%), as a mixture of two isomers. Reaction of this allylchloride with A-methylmorpholine oxide (NMO) and Nal furnished the aldehyde, as a mixture of four isomers. These compounds underwent condensation with P-cyclogeranylsulfone. Further chlorination of the sulfone-alkoxide salts, led to a mixture of sulfone-chloride acetals and their products of hydrolysis in 45-50% yield. Double elimination of the chloride and the sulfone, followed by hydrolysis with pyridinium tosylate (PPTS) gave retinal, as a mixture of all E and 13Z isomers (78/22). The overall yield from the chloroacetal was 18%. In another one-pot example, retinal was obtained in 52% yield from the aldehyde, and was then isomerised and reduced to retinol (all E 95.5, 13Z 4, 9Z 0.5) Fig. (8). 

BASF AG CRBPII dba DBN DBU DIBAL-H DMAP DMF DMF-DMA DMPU HMDS HMPA HMPT H-LR LDA LDE LRAT MCPBA MOM NMO NMP PCC PhH = Badische Anilin- Soda Fabrik AG = cellular retinol-binding protein type II r dibenzylideneacetone = 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene = l,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene = diisobutylaluminium hydride = 4-dimethylaminopyridine = A V-dimethylformamide = A,V-dimethylformamide, dimethylacetal = 1,3 -dimethyl-3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2( 1H)-pyrimidone = hexamethyldisilazane = hexamethylphosphoramide = hexamethylphosphorous triamide = Hoffmann-La Roche = lithium diisopropylamide = lithium diethylamide = lecithin retinol acyltransferase = m-chloroperbenzoic acid = methoxymethyl = iV-methylmorpholine oxide = l-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone = pyridinium chlorochromate = benzene... 

N-methylmorpholine oxide-hydrogen peroxide, 184, 221, 223 4-Methyl-19-nortestosterone, 89 16/3-Methyl-l 6a, 17a-oxidopregn-4-ene-... 

Methyl-4-nitropyridine AAoxide, 2310 N-Methylmorpholine oxide, 1991 iV-Methylpiperidine —N /i-oxide, 2522... 

Aliphatic tertiary amines can be oxidized to A/-oxides using 35% mjm aqueous hydrogen peroxide alone,303 typically in water at 1.1 1 molar ratio of oxidant to amine for 4-5 h at 60-65 °C. This method is employed worldwide for the production of 25 kilo-tons per annum of fatty amine oxides which are invariably used as surfactants304 in personal care products, and as thickener compounds in hypochlorite household bleaches. JV-Methylmorpholine oxide... 

A catalytic method which promises to find wide application in view of its mildness and ease of execution uses a catalytic amount of tetra-n-propylammonium perruthenate (TPAP) with A7-methylmorpholine -oxide (NMO) as the cooxidant. ° l4imary (and secondary) alcohols which contain a range of ftinc-tional groups (alkenes, tetrahydropyran ethers, epoxides, lactones, silyl ethers and indoles inter alia) can be oxidized without interference by the other functional group (equations 21-23). The performance of the reagent is improved further by including molecular sieves in the reaction mixture. ... 

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