Peroxy acids compounds

Like other dicoordinate tellurium compounds, l-telluracyclohexa-2,5-dien-4-ones 22 smoothly add halogens (chlorine, bromine, and iodine) affording cr-telluranes 31 in rather high yields. When treated with a peroxy acid, compounds 22 form 1,1-diacetoxy derivatives 31 (87JOC2123). 1-Tellurapyranylidenomalondinitriles 30 undergo similar transformations. 

Taanishi K, Hisamatsu M, Yamada T. Synthesis and chemiluminescence properties of the peroxy acid compound as an intermediate of coelenteate luciferin luminescence 1997 38 2689-92. 

The diminished rr electron density m the double bond makes a p unsaturated aide hydes and ketones less reactive than alkenes toward electrophilic addition Electrophilic reagents—bromine and peroxy acids for example—react more slowly with the carbon-carbon double bond of a p unsaturated carbonyl compounds than with simple alkenes... 

Recently (79MI50500) Sharpless and coworkers have shown that r-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) epoxidations, catalyzed by molybdenum or vanadium compounds, offer advantages over peroxy acids with regard to safety, cost and, sometimes, selectivity, e.g. Scheme 73, although this is not always the case (Scheme 74). The oxidation of propene by 1-phenylethyl hydroperoxide is an important industrial route to methyloxirane (propylene oxide) (79MI5501). 

In this exfflTipIe, addition to the double bond of an alkene converted an achiral molecule to a chiral one. The general term for a structural feature, the alteration of which introduces a chirality center in a molecule, is prochiral. A chirality center is introduced when the double bond of propene reacts with a peroxy acid. The double bond is a prochiral structural unit, and we speak of the top and bottom faces of the double bond as prochiral faces. Because attack at one prochual face gives the enantiomer of the compound formed by attack at the other face, we classify the relationship between the two faces as enantiotopic. 

The great utility of hydrogen peroxide as a reagent for the conversion of sulphoxides to sulphones spurred the investigation of other peroxy-containing compounds. Probably the most commonly used species is peracetic acid which is formed by the reaction of acetic acid with hydrogen peroxide. In addition, other peroxy acids such as pertrifluoroacetic acid and m-chloroperbenzoic acid and hydroperoxides and hydrotrioxides are often used to convert sulphoxides to sulphones. 

Allylic alcohols can be converted to epoxy-alcohols with tert-butylhydroperoxide on molecular sieves, or with peroxy acids. Epoxidation of allylic alcohols can also be done with high enantioselectivity. In the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation,allylic alcohols are converted to optically active epoxides in better than 90% ee, by treatment with r-BuOOH, titanium tetraisopropoxide and optically active diethyl tartrate. The Ti(OCHMe2)4 and diethyl tartrate can be present in catalytic amounts (15-lOmol %) if molecular sieves are present. Polymer-supported catalysts have also been reported. Since both (-t-) and ( —) diethyl tartrate are readily available, and the reaction is stereospecific, either enantiomer of the product can be prepared. The method has been successful for a wide range of primary allylic alcohols, where the double bond is mono-, di-, tri-, and tetrasubstituted. This procedure, in which an optically active catalyst is used to induce asymmetry, has proved to be one of the most important methods of asymmetric synthesis, and has been used to prepare a large number of optically active natural products and other compounds. The mechanism of the Sharpless epoxidation is believed to involve attack on the substrate by a compound formed from the titanium alkoxide and the diethyl tartrate to produce a complex that also contains the substrate and the r-BuOOH. ... 

Treatment of 51 with an excess of sodium benzoate in DMF resulted in substitution and elimination, to yield the cyclohexene derivative (228, 36%). The yield was low, but 228 was later shown to be a useful compound for synthesis of carba-oligosaccharides. <9-Deacylation of228 and successive benzylidenation and acetylation gave the alkene 229, which was oxidized with a peroxy acid to give a single epoxide (230) in 60% yield. Treatment of 230 with sodium azide and ammonium chloride in aqueous 2-methoxyeth-anol gave the azide (231,55%) as the major product this was converted into a hydroxyvalidamine derivative in the usual manner. On the other hand, an elimination reaction of the methanesulfonate of 231 with DBU in toluene gave the protected precursor (232, 87%) of 203. 

DL-Valiolamine (205) was synthesized from the exo-alkene (247) derived from 51 with silver fluoride in pyridine. Compound 247 was treated with a peroxy acid, to give a single spiro epoxide (248, 89%) which was cleaved by way of anchimeric reaction in the presence of acetate ion to give, after acetylation, the tetraacetate 249. The bromo group was directly displaced with azide ion, the product was hydrogenated, and the amine acety-lated, to give the penta-A, 0-acetyl derivative (250,50%). On the other hand. 

Total synthesis of (+)-validamycins A and B starting from a common synthetic intermediate was elaborated by the following sequence. Tetra-(9-benzyl-(-l-)-valienamine (370), derived from 211, and the di-O-benzyl derivative (371) of the epoxide were coupled in 2-propanol to produce the protected dicarba compound (374), the structure of which was confirmed by conversion into (-1-)-validoxylamine B nonaacetate. Concurrently, compound 372 was glycosylated and the product oxidized with a peroxy acid, to afford a mixture of products from which the desired epoxide (373) was obtained in 70% yield. Coupling of 370 with 373 in 2-propanol at 120° afforded two carba-trisaccharides, and the major product (47%) was depro-tected and characterized as the dodecaacetate of validamycin B. The pro-... 

On the basis of these results it can be stated that the fast oxidation of thiocyanate by peroxy acids gives rise to the induced reduction of hydrogen peroxide. In order to elucidate the mechanism of this interesting reaction let us have a look at reactions of thiocyanate with peroxy compounds of different types. 

The rate of epoxidation of alkenes is increased by alkyl groups and other ERG substituents and the reactivity of the peroxy acids is increased by EWG substituents.72 These structure-reactivity relationships demonstrate that the peroxyacid acts as an electrophile in the reaction. Decreased reactivity is exhibited by double bonds that are conjugated with strongly electron-attracting substituents, and more reactive peroxyacids, such as trifluoroperoxyacetic acid, are required for oxidation of such compounds.73 Electron-poor alkenes can also be epoxidized by alkaline solutions of... 

Support for this conclusion is provided by the hydroperoxide specificity of BP oxidation. The scheme presented in Figure 6 requires that the same oxidizing agent is generated by reaction of h2°2/ peroxy acids, or alkyl hydroperoxides with the peroxidase. Oxidation of any compound by the iron-oxo intermediates should be supported by any hydroperoxide that is reduced by the peroxidase. This is clearly not the case for oxidation of BP by ram seminal vesicle microsomes as the data in Figure 7 illustrate. Quinone formation is supported by fatty acid hydroperoxides but very poorly or not at all by simple alkyl hydroperoxides or H2C>2. The fact that... 

This is an alternative method of introducing copper into an o-hydroxyazo dye structure. The azo compound is treated with a copper(II) salt and an oxidant in an aqueous medium at 40-70 °C and pH 4.5-7.0. Sodium peroxide, sodium perborate, hydrogen peroxide or other salts of peroxy acids may be used as oxidants, the function of which is to introduce a second hydroxy group in the o -position [25]. This process is reminiscent of earlier work on Cl Acid Red 14 (5.51 X = H), an o-hydroxyazo dye that will not react with a chromium (III) salt to form a 1 1 complex but will do so by oxidation with an acidified dichromate solution. This oxidation product was later found to be identical with that obtained by conventional reaction of Cl Mordant Black 3 (5.51 X = OH) with a chromium(III) salt [7]. 

R0)2P-S—S—P(0R)2. A number of these products and others from reactions of dithiophosphoric acids with oxidants are listed in Table 2 since they are some of the impurities to be anticipated. Thiophosphoryl (P=S) compounds are rapidly, quantitatively, and stereospecifically converted to phosphoryl (P=0) compounds by organic peroxy acids under mild conditions. The reactions of peroxy acids and dithiophosphoric acids and salts have apparently not been characterized. 

The stereochemical outcome of epoxidation of 6-suhstitiited 2-al-koxy-5,6-dihydro-2/i-pyrans with peroxy acids is dependent on the configuration and on the type of substituents in the substrate from either isomer, the cis or trails, or (usually) both, stereoisomeric epox-idc(s) are formed. In the case of the Irons isomer, the a-lijxo epoxide (232) preponderates over the a-ribo compound (233). From thee/.v iso-... 

Only much later was the hydroxylation of pure trans-307 and cis-307 performed, and the corresponding ci.s-diols were obtained in 22-26% yield. The compound obtained from t ran 4-307 was converted199 into ert/fhro-pentopyranos-4-ulose hydrate by successive alkaline de-benzoylation, and hydrolysis of the acetal in the presence of Dowex W-50 resin. An attempt at direct tran.s--hydroxylation of trans-307 by Woodward s or Prevost s method failed, as have attempts at its epoxi-dation with peroxy acids.200 Nevertheless, a number of 3,4-epoxides... 

Photooxidation finds occasional use in synthesis. Compounds such as XXX are formed by the oxidation of sterically hindered bis (sec-alkyl)-, and bis(organic peroxy acids.39 Compound XXXI is produced in pyridine solution of thiourea236 in the presence of photosensitizer and oxygen under the influence of ultraviolet light. 

Oxidation with peroxy acids gives a variety of products,217 710 some of which are indicated in Scheme 9.18. All the compounds formed could be interpreted via further transformation of the 93 intermediate oxirene. ... 

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