Useful base promoted elaborations of oxiranyl ethers
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Introduction
We have shown in the last few years that oxiranyl ethers 1 can be conveniently elaborated in a number of ways, to afford useful building blocks such as hydroxyvinyl ethers 2,1., 2., 3., 4. hydroxyoxetanes 3,5., 6., 7. diols 4,8 allylic alcohols 59 and hydroxytetrahydrooxepines 610 (Scheme 1, routes a–f, respectively).
All these transformations have been carried out making use of superbases11., 12. and in particular an equimolar mixture of butyllithium, diisopropylamine and potassium tert-butoxide (LIDAKOR)13 except for the preparation of allylic alcohols which occurs by reductive lithiation14 of the thiophenyl substituted epoxy ether with the radical anion LDBB15 via Grob-type fragmentation.16., 17.
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Results and discussion
Due to the synthetic utility of oxetanes,18., 19. their preparation is still of interest. Furthermore, the recently reported novel stereoselective rearrangement of oxiranes (1) or oxetanes (3) into Z-2-alkene-1,4-diols (4) worked only in those cases when R and Y were alkyl and phenyl groups, respectively.8 The phenyl group is a requisite of the rearrangement process. However, this new reaction would be a convenient route to practically useful building blocks (type 4) of biologically active
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Air and moisture sensitive compounds were stored in Schlenk tubes or in Schlenk burettes. They were protected by and handled under an atmosphere of 99.99% pure nitrogen. Ethereal extracts were dried with sodium sulfate. The temperature of dry ice–ethanol baths is consistently indicated as −78°C, that of ice bath as 0°C and ‘room temperature’ as 25°C. If no reduced pressure is specified, boiling ranges were determined under ordinary atmospheric conditions (720±35 mmHg). Purifications by flash
Acknowledgements
The authors are indebted to the CNR (Italy) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for promotion of the scientific cooperation in the framework of the bilateral cooperation agreement between the two institutions. This research work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Hungary (OTKA Grant No. T-030803).
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