Synthesis of functionally substitutedα,β-unsaturated epoxides

Conclusions A study was made of the condensation of 2,3-epoxybutyraldehyde, 2,3-epoxysuccinaldehyde mono-dimethyl acetal], and ethyl 2,3-epoxysuccinaldehydate at their aldehyde groups with ethyl (triphenylphosphoranylidene)acetate, phosphonoacetic acid triethyl ester, (triphenylphosphoranylidene)acetone, (triphenylphosphoranylidene)aeetonitrile, and diethyl (cyanomethyl)phosphonate. The last two reactions lead to the formation of a mixture of cis and trans isomers.This article is published in accordance with a resolution of the Conference of Editors-in-Chief of Journals of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR of July 12, 1962, as a dissertation paper by B. I. Kozyrkin.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 683–688, April, 1966