When γ,δ-epoxy-α,β-unsaturated esters or amides were treated with 2 equiv of Grignard reagents in the presence of 10−24 mol % FeCl2, regio- and stereoselective substitution of the epoxide moiety with the Grignard reagent occurred to give exclusively δ-hydroxy-γ-alkyl or aryl-α,β-unsaturated esters or amides in good yields.
configurations of a series of primary alcohols possessing a branched methylgroup at C2 position were examined on the basis of a modified Mosher's method proposed by Minale et al. It was revealed that in many cases the absolute configurations at C2 were assignable from the chemicalshift differences of geminal protons of the methylene attached to the ester linkage in the alpha-methoxy-alpha-trifluoromethylphenylacetyl
Novel Catalytic CO<sub>2</sub> Incorporation Reaction: Nickel-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Ring-Closing Carboxylation of Bis-1,3-dienes
作者:Masanori Takimoto、Miwako Mori
DOI:10.1021/ja026620c
日期:2002.8.1
Novelnickel-catalyzed carboxylation of bis-1,3-dienes using carbon dioxide (CO2) was investigated. In the presence of catalytic amounts of Ni(acac)2 and PPh3, various bis-1,3-dienes smoothly reacted with CO2 and an organozinc reagent (Et2Zn, Me2Zn, or Ph2Zn) under mild conditions. This catalytic carboxylation process was accompanied by carbocyclization of bis-1,3-diene followed by alkylation by an
A molecular modelling approach to rationalize the stereochemical outcome of the Burkholderia cepacia lipase-catalyzed transesterification of aromatic primary alcohols with vinyl esters with different chain lengths in chloroform
The Burkholderia cepacia lipase-catalyzed transesterification of 2-rnethyl-3-phenyl-1-propanol with vinyl esters proceeds with high enantioselectivity independently of the acyl chain length and the low enantioselectivity of the same reaction with 2-phenyl-1-propanol is not affected by chain length of the vinyl esters. A molecular modelling approach has been developed in order to rationalize the enzymatic results. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.