Abstract: | Inversion during the acid hydrolysis of trans-4-benzamido-3-hydroxythiophane is accomplished through the intermediate formation of cis-2-phenyltetrahydrothieno[3,4-d]oxazoline. The latter has cis ring fusion, and the oxazoline ring is planar. Opening of the oxazoline ring is not accompanied by inversion and leads to cis-3,4-substituted thiophanes. Migration of the acyl group from the nitrogen to the oxygen atom was detected in substituted thiophanes.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No.10, pp. 1339–1344, October, 1971. |