65817-46-1Relevant articles and documents
Acid-catalyzed reactions of sarcophytoxide, a marine cembranoid: An apparently enantio-directive reaction, unusual products and stereochemical reconsideration of epoxide-ketone rearrangement
Nii, Keiji,Tagami, Keiko,Rijima, Masaru,Munakata, Tatsuo,Ooi, Takashi,Kusumi, Takenori
experimental part, p. 562 - 573 (2009/04/10)
Perchloric acid treatment of sarcophytoxide, a marine cembranoid possessing an epoxide, brought about epoxide ketone rearrangement affording ketones. When the reaction time was long (22 h), a minor ketone that was antipodal to the ketone obtained in a short-time (l0min) reaction was formed. These puzzling findings, considering that the starting epoxide had three asymmetric carbons, were interpreted by surveying the structures of other ketonic products. The stereochemistry of a major ketone, which had been wrongly assigned, was corrected by extensive analyses of NMR spectra. The correct stereochemistry indicated that the epoxide-ketone rearrangement took a course via a cationic intermediate.