环氧乙烷亲核开环的区域选择性规则在有机化学教学中的应用

环氧乙烷亲核开环的区域选择性规则是有机化学中典型脂肪三元杂环亲核性开环的选择性规则,具有普遍性。本文以非对称环氧乙烷的亲核性开环为核心,从开环反应过渡态稳定性的角度讨论了决定环氧乙烷亲核开环区域选择性的原因。介绍了该区域选择性规则在经过三元杂环正离子中间体的非对称烯烃亲电加成反应区域选择性教学中的应用。加强学生对不同反应的机理和选择性的联系,起到教学中融会贯通的作用,可以提高教学效率和效果。     

Titanium Dioxide as a Mild and Efficient Catalyst for Conversion of Epoxides to Thiiranes

Abstract

Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) efficiently catalyze the reaction of a variety of epoxides with ammonium thiocyanate in refluxing acetonitrile to afford the corresponding thiirane in high to excellent yields.     

Synthesis of cananodine by intramolecular epoxide opening

Cananodine is a guaipyridine alkaloid with activity against liver cancer. Cananodine was synthesized using a remarkable intramolecular opening of a trisubstituted epoxide as the key step in construction of the seven-membered carbocycle of the target. The epoxide opening strategy allows all four stereoisomers of cananodine to be prepared.     

Analyses of lepidopteran sex pheromones by mass spectrometry

Lepidoptera, including about 150,000 species in the world, comprise the second largest insect group, and sex pheromones have been identified from virgin female moths of more than 600 species. The chemical structures are simple, but diverse, because species-specific pheromones play an important role in the reproductive isolation of each species. The pheromone content in each female is quite low, and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is most frequently utilized to reveal the chemical structure. Almost all pheromone components are straight-chain compounds and are classified into two major groups [i.e. unsaturated C₁₀-C₁₈ fatty alcohols and their derivatives (Type I) and C₁₇-C₂₃ polyenyl hydrocarbons and their epoxides (Type II)]. In addition to the unbranched compounds, some species secrete methyl-branched compounds (e.g., 2-ketones). For the identification of these compounds, determining the positions of the double bond, the epoxy ring, and the methyl group is an important key step. Copious spectral information measured by electron-impact ionization (70 eV) has been accumulated for these compounds. This review therefore deals with their spectral characteristics, namely, diagnostic ions, to apply them to pheromone studies on new target insects.     

Remarkable synergistic effect between MonBI and MonBII on epoxide opening reaction in ionophore polyether monensin biosynthesis

Enzymatic epoxide-opening cascade is one of the key biosynthetic processes for constructing structurally diverse polyethers. Here we report the first in vitro analysis of the cyclization catalyzed by two epoxide hydrolases, MonBI and MonBII involved in monensin biosynthesis, using simple epoxy-alcohols and the unprecedented synergistic effect on the epoxide-opening activity between these epoxide hydrolases.     

Reactions of azepinones with electrophiles

Azepinones are available via a one-pot cycloaddition-ring expansion reaction sequence in good yield. The reactions of azepinones with alkyl halides and epoxides were studied. We report herein protocols for the alkylation of azepinones at nitrogen with alkyl halides and epoxides and the isomerizations that occur in the presence of a base. We also report an unexpected ring contraction under oxidative conditions.     

屈螺酮分子中6β,7β-亚甲基结构的简便构建及屈螺酮的合成

设计了简便构建屈螺酮分子中6β,7β-亚甲基结构的合成路线,并合成了屈螺酮.以16β,16β-亚甲基-3-氧代-17α-孕甾-4,6-二烯-21,17-羰内酯为起始原料,依次经硼氢化钠还原、间氯过氧苯甲酸环氧化、氢化铝锂还原性开环、Simmons-Smith加成以及铬酐氧化等5步反应得到目标化合物屈螺酮.中间体4β,5...     

Chiral Lewis base promoted trichlorosilane reduction of ketimines. An enantioselective organocatalytic synthesis of chiral amines

The reduction of the carbon-nitrogen double bond is an important transformation. Here we report our studies on a family of chiral organic catalysts able to promote the stereoselective reduction of ketimines with trichlorosilane. The very cheap, metal-free catalysts were easily prepared in one step from commercially available products, namely a chiral aminoalcohol and picolinic acid derivatives. The catalyst structure was extensively modified in a study that allowed to identify an extremely active species, able to promote the reduction on a large variety of substrates with high efficiency (up to 95% ee). A three component methodology has been also developed, where the enantiomerically enriched amine was isolated after performing the reaction by mixing a ketone and an amine in the presence of trichlorosilane and the catalyst. Its synthetic potentiality was demonstrated by employing the present metal-free catalytic procedure in the preparation of (S)-metolachlor, a potent and widely used herbicide.