Oxirane reactions with phenols

Z)-Phenol-substituted alkenes (67) can be produced by the palladium(0)-catalysed reaction of propargylic oxiranes (66) with phenols. This regio- and stereo-selective (g) addition is believed to occur via the formation of 7t-propargyl- and Tr-allylpalladium complexes. The phenoxy-substituted enones were obtained as by-products and their proportion depended on the reaction conditions.75... 

The role of steric factors has been examined in the opening of polyfluorinated oxiranes. Accounts have been given of the alcoholysis of steroid oxiranes and their transformation with phenol.The kinetics of the reactions of oxiranes with alcohols and phenols have been reported in a number of publications. The catalytic influence of transition metals has been examined. A secondary deuterium isotope effect has been studied in the course of methanolysis, and the solvent effect has been considered in reactions with phenols. ... 

Oxiranes can be opened stereo- and regiospecifically under mild conditions with alcohols, thiols, amines, and acetic acid, with simultaneous activation of the nucleophilic and electrophilic centers on an alumina surface.Diols have been obtained on silica gel in the presence of water " and adsorbed FeCls. On an ion-exchange resin, the opening of oxirane isomers to diols and the separation of the latter, ethanolysis, the reaction with phenol,and catalytic ammonolysis have been described. Hydrolysis and methanolysis catalyzed by Nafion-H, a perfluorinated resinsulfonic acid have been reported. ... 

Hydroxyethers were obtained with high regioselectivities and in high chemical yields from oxiranes by reaction with phenol in water in the presence of -cyclodextrin or tributylphosphine. °... 

As has been stated before, oxirane derivatives are formed as intermediates during metabolic oxidations at carbon-carbon double bonds. These epoxides (arene oxides) undergo spontaneous isomerization to phenols, or enzymic hydration via epoxide hydrase to trans- dihydrodiols, or reaction with reduced glutathione (GSH) via specific GSH-transferases to the corresponding conjugates (Scheme 11), which eventually appear in urine... 

Group of plastics composed of resins produced by reactions of epoxides or oxiranes with compounds such as amines, phenols, alcohols, carboxylic acids, acid anhydrides and unsaturated compounds. 

Reaction of pyroc techol with epichlorohydrin in the presence of base affords the benzodioxan derivative, 136, (The reaction may well involve initial displacement of halogen by phenoxide followed by opening of the oxirane by the anion from the second phenolic group.) Treatment of the alcohol with thio-nyl chloride gives the corresponding chloro compound (137). Displacement of halogen by means of diethylamine affords piper-oxan (138), a compound with a-sympathetic blocking activity. 

Few solid-phase syntheses of oxazoles have been reported (Table 15.17). The most general strategy is the dehydration of a-(acylamino) ketones (Entry 2, Table 15.17) or 2-(acylamino)phenols (Entry 1, Table 15.17). Oxazolidin-2-ones have been prepared by intramolecular nucleophilic cleavage of carbamates from insoluble supports (Entries 5 and 6, Table 15.17). Resin-bound 2-aminoethanols, which are accessible by nucleophilic ring-opening of oxiranes with amines, undergo cyclocondensation with aldehydes to yield oxazolidines [220,221]. These compounds are unstable towards acids, and can be released from the support only under neutral or basic reaction conditions. 

Anilines (23 R = 2-Pr, PhCPfc X = Cl, Br, I) have been obtained in high yields (40-95%) from the reaction of the primary amines 2-propylamine and benzylamine with the ethers (24 R = Me, CH2=CHCH2, CH2-oxirane) in EtOH at room temperature.127 With secondary amines dealkylation of the aromatic ether to the corresponding phenol took place rather than SNAr dealkoxylation. 

Substituted aryloxiranes undergo a quantitative ring opening at the least substituted carbon when treated with Bi(OTf)3 and substituted phenols in dichloromethane at room temperature.27 In the proposed mechanism, the Bi(OTf)3 coordinates with the oxirane oxygen. This intermediate is the substrate in the S 2 reaction at the least substituted carbon. 

Thiophene sulfonium salts have also been used for alkylation of phenols, thiophenols, and other nucleophiles (Equation 70) <2001T2871>. Ylides generated from THT and alkyl or allyl halides are known to react with aldehydes to form oxiranes. However, a modified procedure has been developed in which only a catalytic amount of THT is used for the preparation of vinyloxiranes from allyl bromides and aldehydes. In most of the cases, a m-/ra r-mixture of vinyloxiranes was obtained. Optically pure C2-symmetric /ra r-2,5-dimethyltetrahydrothiophene has also been used for the asymmetric version of this reaction, but the enantioselectivity was poor (25% ee) (Equation 71) <2003CC2074>. 

Treatment of the oxepines 347 with HCl at 40 °C brings about a practically quantitative rearrangement to afford the isomeric phenols 349 (equation 165) (for rearrangements of oxepines, see Section VII.C). A similar reaction occurs if an alkyne fragment is connected to a cyclopropene ring in one molecule (equations 166 and 167). Liquid-phase thermolysis of the cyclopropane 350 as well as oxirane 352 leads to the same phenol 351 (equation 168) . ... 

The reaction of the same propargylic oxirane with a different catalyst and nucleophile provides radically different product <05TL3669>. Treatment of 74 with a phenol in the presence of a PdjCdba), provides 76, the product of simple addition across the triple bond. It is interesting to note that no reaction of the epoxide ring occurs. 

Estradiol and estrone are metabolized to an array of oxidized products, one of which consists of the 16a-hydroxy derivative 30-4. One approach to preparing that compound starts by reaction of estrone with isopropyhdene acetate, to afford the acetate of the enolic form of the ketone and also the ester of the phenol at position 3 (30-1) (Scheme 3.30). Treatment of that product with perbenzoic acid leads to the a-oxirane 30-2, formed from approach of the reagent from the less hindered backside. Acetolysis of that intermediate gives 16a-acetoxyestrone (30-3). Reaction of that product with lithium aluminum hydride leads to reduction of the 17-carbonyl and also the phenolic ester to give the trans-Aio 16a-hydroxy- 17(3-estradiol (30-4). The same product is obtained on reducing 30-2 directly also with lithium aluminum hydride. 

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