Highly α-Selective Hydrolysis of α.β- Epoxyalcohols Using Tetrabutylammonium Fluoride

Purba Mukarjee; Abid Shaikh; Frank C. Schroeder

Highly α-Selective Hydrolysis of α.β- Epoxyalcohols Using Tetrabutylammonium Fluoride

Purba Mukarjee, Abid Shaikh, Frank C. Schroeder

Biochemistry, Chemistry & Physics

Cornell University

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Abstract

We report a simple method for the highly regio- and stereoselective hydrolysis of α,β-epoxyalcohols. Treatment of enantiopure epoxyalcohols derived from Sharpless epoxidation with TBAF/H2O resulted in exclusive ring opening at the normally disfavored α-position, providing access to arabino- or lyxo-configured triols with full preservation of stereochemical purity. The method was applied in syntheses of 5-deoxy-l-arabinose (26) and a family of bicyclic acetals based on the insect pheromone hydroxybrevicomin (4).

Original language	American English
Journal	Organic Letters
Volume	12
State	Published - 2010

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Chemistry

Keywords

Enantiopure epoxyalcohols
Sharpless epoxidation
α
β-epoxyalcohols

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Highly α-Selective Hydrolysis of α.β- Epoxyalcohols Using Tetrabutylammonium Fluoride

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