161111-61-1Relevant articles and documents
Efficient epoxidation of electron-deficient alkenes with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by [γ-PW10O38V2(μ-OH) 2]3-
Kamata, Keigo,Sugahara, Kosei,Yonehara, Kazuhiro,Ishimoto, Ryo,Mizuno, Noritaka
, p. 7549 - 7559 (2011)
A divanadium-substituted phosphotungstate, [γ-PW10O 38V2(μ-OH)2]3- (I), showed the highest catalytic activity for the H2O2-based epoxidation of allyl acetate among vanadium and tungsten complexes with a turnover number of 210. In the presence of I, various kinds of electron-deficient alkenes with acetate, ether, carbonyl, and chloro groups at the allylic positions could chemoselectively be oxidized to the corresponding epoxides in high yields with only an equimolar amount of H2O2 with respect to the substrates. Even acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile could be epoxidized without formation of the corresponding amides. In addition, I could rapidly (min) catalyze epoxidation of various kinds of terminal, internal, and cyclic alkenes with H;bsubesubbsubesub& under the stoichiometric conditions. The mechanistic, spectroscopic, and kinetic studies showed that the I-catalyzed epoxidation consists of the following three steps: 1) The reaction of I with H;bsubesubbsubesub& leads to reversible formation of a hydroperoxo species [I;circbsubesubbsubesubbsubesubcirccircbsupesup& (II), 2) the successive dehydration of II forms an active oxygen species with a peroxo group [ 2:2-O2)]3- (III), and 3) III reacts with alkene to form the corresponding epoxide. The kinetic studies showed that the present epoxidation proceeds via III. Catalytic activities of divanadium-substituted polyoxotungstates for epoxidation with H 2O2 were dependent on the different kinds of the heteroatoms (i.e., Si or P) in the catalyst and I was more active than [γ-SiW10O38V2(μ-OH)2] 4-. On the basis of the kinetic, spectroscopic, and computational results, including those of [γ-SiW10O38V 2(μ-OH)2]4-, the acidity of the hydroperoxo species in II would play an important role in the dehydration reactivity (i.e., k3). The largest k3 value of I leads to a significant increase in the catalytic activity of I under the more concentrated conditions. Copyright
Production of enantiopure chiral epoxides with e. Coli expressing styrene monooxygenase
?tadániová, Radka,Fischer, Róbert,Gyuranová, Dominika,Hegyi, Zuzana,Rebro?, Martin
, (2021)
Styrene monooxygenases are a group of highly selective enzymes able to catalyse the epoxidation of alkenes to corresponding chiral epoxides in excellent enantiopurity. Chiral compounds containing oxirane ring or products of their hydrolysis represent key building blocks and precursors in organic synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry, and many of them are produced on an industrial scale. Two-component recombinant styrene monooxygenase (SMO) from Marinobacterium litorale was expressed as a fused protein (StyAL2StyB) in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3). By high cell density fermentation, 35 gDCW/L of biomass with overexpressed SMO was produced. SMO exhibited excellent stability, broad substrate specificity, and enantioselectivity, as it remained active for months and converted a group of alkenes to corresponding chiral epoxides in high enantiomeric excess (>95–99% ee). Optically pure (S)-4-chlorostyrene oxide, (S)-allylbenzene oxide, (2R,5R)-1,2:5,6-diepoxyhexane, 2-(3-bromopropyl)oxirane, and (S)-4-(oxiran-2-yl)butan-1-ol were prepared by whole-cell SMO.
Free-Radical Homolytic Substitution at Selenium: An Efficient Method for the Preparation of Selenophenes
Lyons, Jennifer E.,Schiesser, Carl H.,Sutej, Katarina
, p. 5632 - 5638 (2007/10/02)
Substituted and unsubstituted 1-(benzylseleno)-4-iodobut-3-en-2-ols 12 and 2-(benzylseleno)-1-(2-iodophenyl)ethanols 18 react smoothly with tris(trimethylsilyl)silane in benzene at 80 deg C (AIBN initiator) to afford selenophenes 16 and benzoselenophenes 21 in excellent yield.These reactions presumably involve intramolecular homolytic substitution by aryl and vinyl radicals 14 and 20 at the selenium atom with the expulsion of benzyl radical followed by facile dehydration to afford the aromatic selenophene ring system in each case.Competitive rate studies on the ring closure of the 2-phenyl radical 25 in the presence of tri-n-butyltin hydride to give 2,3-dihydrobenzoselenophene (27) and 1-(benzylseleno)-2-phenylethane (28) provide a rate constant for ring closure (kc) of approximately 3E7 s- at 80 deg C.The determination of more accurate data is hampered by what we attribute to be the involvement of a slow, but competive nonradical process.
