Organic epoxide reagent

The organic epoxide reagent (ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and epichloro-hydrin) serves as proton scavenger and is stoichiometrically consumed in this sol-gel reaction. Given the higher acidity of water ligands of solvated metal cations (salts) in solution, they tend to spontaneously form hydroxide ligands (see Eq. (17.5)). The proton that is released can protonate the epoxide ... 

Toxicity. The peroxy acid is highly toxic and may cause death or permanent injury after very short exposure to small quants (Ref 12) Uses. Peroxyacetic acid is the most important epoxidation reagent used today because of its economical availability and ease of use with a wide variety of reactants (Ref 10). It also finds wide usage as an organic oxidizing agent (Ref 11) Refs 1) Beil 2, 169, (78), [174] [379 ... 

The transformation of carboxylic acids and their functional derivatives to the corresponding peroxycarboxylic acids or diacyl peroxides are generally known reactions.200-201 Among the hydroperoxy derivatives, trifluoroperacetic acid is a frequently used epoxidizing reagent in organic chemistry and is usually prepared in situ.200-201... 

Epoxidation of C=X double bonds is a very active field in organic chemistry. It seems that for almost every type of double bond a special epoxidation reagent has been developed. 

Sdietne 2.37. Substitution reactions of propar lic bromides and unsaturated epoxides with organ ozinc reagents. 

The conversion of alkenes to epoxides is covered in most introductory organic chemistry texts, often exemplified by the use of m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (MCPBA) as the epoxidizing reagent. Bradley et al. compared the enantioselective Sharpless epoxidation of geraniol with the classical MCPBA method, which gives a racemic product 21). Hoye and Jeffrey have illustrated a... 

Epoxidations. Taking advantage of its utility as a base, pyridine has been used for epoxidations in anhydrous organic systems with a-azo hydroperoxides as the epoxidizing reagents (eq 19). sodium hydroxide works equally weU or better with some of the epoxidizing agents however, with the hydroperoxide (24),... 

A detailed procedure for the use of MCPBA recently appeared in Reagents for Organic Synthesis by Fieser and Fieser. The commercially available MCPBA (Aldrich) is 85% pure the contaminant, m-chlorobenzoic acid, can be removed by washing with a phosphate buffer of pH 7.5. The epoxidation is usually performed as follows a solution of 3 -acetoxy-5a-androst-16-ene (2.06 g, 6.53 mmoles) in 25 ml of chloroform (or methylene dichloride) is chilled to 0° in a flask fitted with a condenser and drierite tube and treated with a solution of commercial MCPBA (1.74 g, 20% excess) in 25 ml chloroform precooled to the same temperature. The mixture is stirred and allowed to warm to room temperature. After 23 hr (or until TLC shows reaction is complete) the solution is diluted with 100 ml chloroform and washed in sequence with 100 ml of 10% sodium sulfite or sodium iodide followed by sodium thiosulfate, 200 ml of 1 M sodium bicarbonate and 200 ml water. The chloroform extract is dried (MgS04) and evaporated in vacuo to a volume of ca. 10 ml. Addition of methanol (10 ml) followed by cooling of the mixture to —10° yields 0.8 gof 16a,17a-epoxide mp 109.5-110°. Additional product can be obtained by concentration of the mother liquor (total yield 80-90%). 

Perbenzoic acid and monoperphthalic acid are used in the same manner as MCPBA but a fresh solution of these reagents is usually required syntheses for these reagents can also be found in Fieser and Fieser s Reagents for Organic Synthesis. A microtechnique for perbenzoic acid epoxidation has also been described. ... 

Epoxides can also be converted to allylic alcohols using electrophilic reagents. The treatment of epoxides with trialkyl silyl iodides and an organic base gives the silyl ether of the corresponding allylic alcohols.154... 

Alkenes can also be epoxidized directly with a variety of organic peroxy acids or related reagents such as peroxy carboximidic acid, RC(NH)OOH, which is readily available through an in situ reaction of... 

The Sharpless epoxidation is a popular laboratory process that is both enantioselective and catalytic in nature. Not only does it employ inexpensive reagents and involve various important substrates (allylic alcohols) and products (epoxides) in organic synthesis, but it also demonstrates unusually wide applicability because of its insensitivity to many aspects of substrate structure. Selection of the proper chirality in the starting tartrate esters and proper geometry of the allylic alcohols allows one to establish both the chirality and relative configuration of the product (Fig. 4-1). 

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