作者:Scott E. Whitney、Bruce Rickborn                                    
                                    
                                        DOI:10.1021/jo00009a025
                                    
                                    
                                        日期:1991.4
                                    
                                    Reactions of 2-alpha-, 2-, 4-, and 5-lithiooxazoles are used to prepare various substituted derivatives.  Previously unrecognized time dependence for the reaction of a 2-lithiooxazole with benzaldehyde is described, and a rationale for this behavior is offered.  Competitive reactions occur when the readily available 2,5-diphenyloxazole is treated with n-butyllithium.  Deprotonation of the ortho position of the 2-phenyl group and addition of n-butyl to the 2-position of the oxazole compete with the desired 4-lithiation.  The use of sec-butyllithium/catalytic lithium tetramethylpiperidide allows preferential formation of 4-lithio-25-diphenyloxazole.  This intermediate has been converted to the 4-bromo, -methyl, -hydroxybenzyl, -benzoyl, and -trialkylsilyl derivatives.  Lithiation of 2,4-diphenyloxazole and subsequent trimethylsilylation occur readily at the 5-position.  Deprotonation of 2-alkyloxazoles occurs at the alpha-carbon in preference to ring sites.  Further reaction of an alpha-phenyl-2-oxazolemethanol methoxymethyl ether with base and acetyl chloride leads to an acyloin derivative.  Chromic acid oxidation is used to prepare both 2- and 4-benzoyloxazoles.  The formation of a 2-ethoxyoxazole from the 2-oxazolone vis Meerwein salt chemistry is described.