Alkylation of pyridinecarbaldehyde oximes with epoxy compounds

O-and N-Alkylation products were obtained by reactions of pyridine-2-,-3-, and-4-carbaldehyde oximes with enantiomerically pure and racemic epoxy compounds (1,2-epoxypropane, 1-phenyl-1,2-epoxyethane, 1-chloro-2,3-epoxypropane, and 1-bromo-2,3-epoxypropane) in the presence of bases and under conditions of phase-transfer catalysis. A series of new amino alcohols was synthesized by condensation of amines with products of O-alkylation of pyridinecarbaldehyde oximes with 1-halo-2,3-epoxypropanes. Published in Russian in Zhurnal Organicheskoi Khimii, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 450–454. The text was submitted by the authors in English.