130566-82-4Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Stereospecific inversion of secondary tosylates to yield chiral methyl-branched building blocks, applied to the asymmetric synthesis of leafminer sex pheromones
Taguri, Tomonori,Yamakawa, Rei,Fujii, Toru,Muraki, Yuta,Ando, Tetsu
experimental part, p. 852 - 858 (2012/09/22)
All four of the possible stereoisomers of 5,9-dimethylheptadecane, the major sex pheromone component secreted by female moths of the mountain-ash bentwing (Leucoptera scitella), were synthesized by the coupling of two chiral blocks with a methyl branch at the 2- or 3-position. The blocks were prepared by applying the stereospecific inversion of secondary tosylates, which were derived from (R)- and (S)-propylene oxide, and their enantiopurities were confirmed by chiral HPLC analysis.
Clarification of the stereochemical course of nucleophilic substitution of arylsulfonate-based nucleophile assisting leaving groups
Braddock, D. Christopher,Pouwer, Rebecca H.,Burton, Jonathan W.,Broadwith, Phillip
supporting information; experimental part, p. 6042 - 6049 (2009/12/24)
(Chemical Equation Presented) Secondary alcohols modified as tosylates, PEG-sulfonates, or quisylates undergo inversion of configuration at the reacting center when treated with lithium halide in acetone at reflux, where the PEG-sulfonates and quisylates are substantially more reactive. In sterically hindered cases, elimination is a competing process. In contrast, when treated with TiCl4, simple secondary sulfonates give chloride products with partial inversion of configuration. Any observed retention of configuration in a given alkyl sulfonate substrate under these conditions is likely due to neighboring group participation or diastereoselective attack on a carbocation (or ion pair) rather than an SNi mechanism.
