Miyashita Y, Someya S, Kawasaki-Takasuka T, Agou T, Yamazaki T. Facile preparation of fluorine-containing 2,3-epoxypropanoates and their epoxy ring-opening reactions with various nucleophiles.
Beilstein J Org Chem 2024;
20:2421-2433. [PMID:
39355856 PMCID:
PMC11443650 DOI:
10.3762/bjoc.20.206]
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Abstract
We describe herein a facile method to access 2,3-epoxyesters with fluorine-containing substituents at their 3-position starting from the corresponding enoates by utilization of the low-costed and easy-to-handle reagent, NaOCl·5H2O. Because very little has been disclosed about the reactivity of such 2,3-epoxyesters, their epoxy ring opening by a variety of nucleophiles was carried out and we succeeded in clarifying these chemo- as well as regioselective processes proceeding via the SN2 mechanism to mainly afford 2-substituted 3-hydroxyesters usually in a highly anti selective manner.
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