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NMR studies on epoxidations of allenamides. Evidence for formation of nitrogen-substituted allene oxide and spiro-epoxide via trapping experiments
Rameshkumar,Xiong, Hui,Tracey, Michael R.,Berry, Craig R.,Yao, Letitia J.,Hsung, Richard P.
, p. 1339 - 1345 (2007/10/03)
Two epoxidations of chiral allenamides are described here. While treatment with m-CPBA led to highly stereoselective formation of an α-keto aminal that can be useful synthetically, DMDO oxidation led to conclusive evidence for both nitrogen-substituted allene oxide (via mono-epoxidation) and spiro-epoxide (via bis-epoxidation) using intramolecular nucleophilic trapping experiments. NMR studies provide reliable evidence for a 3-oxetanone that can be derived from the spiro-epoxide and also suggest the presence of an allene oxide. Despite a facile second epoxidation as evidenced by the predominant formation of the 3-oxetanone, in the presence of furan, [4 + 3] cycloaddition of the nitrogen-substituted allene oxide or oxyallyl cation with furan occurs faster than the second epoxidation efficiently leading to cycloadducts. This rate difference plays an invaluable role for the success of a stereoselective sequential epoxidation-[4 + 3] cycloaddition reaction via DMDO epoxidations of chiral allenamides.
