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Divergent reactivity via cobalt catalysis: An epoxide olefination
Jamieson, Megan L.,Hume, Paul A.,Furkert, Daniel P.,Brimble, Margaret A.
supporting information, p. 468 - 471 (2016/02/18)
Cobalt salts exert an unexpected and profound influence on the reactivity of epoxides with dimethylsulfoxonium methylide. In the presence of a cobalt catalyst, conditions for epoxide to an oxetane ring expansion instead deliver homoallylic alcohol products, corresponding to a two-carbon epoxide homologation/ring-opening tandem process. The observed reactivity change appears to be specifically due to cobalt salts and is broadly applicable to a variety of epoxides, retaining the initial stereochemistry. This transformation also provides operationally simple access to enantiopure homoallylic alcohols from chiral epoxides without use of organometallic reagents. Tandem epoxidation-homologation of aldehydes in a single step is also demonstrated.
Highly regioselective cleavages and iodinations of cyclic ethers utilizing SmI2
Kwon, Doo Won,Kim, Yong Hae,Lee, Kieseung
, p. 9488 - 9491 (2007/10/03)
Various functionalized cyclic ethers such as oxiranes, oxetanes, and tetrahydrofurans have been prepared, and the regiochemistry of their ring opening with samarium diiodide and acyl chloride or anhydride has been investigated. Alkyl-substituted oxetane 5 and tetrahydrofurans 1 and 2 show almost no regioselectivity. However, high regioselectivities from the branched cyclic ethers (3, 8, 9, and 10) containing ethereal or hydroxyl moieties have been observed. This is probably the result of the bidentate chelated species between samarium and oxygen.
