The rate of titanium-tartrate-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols is shown to be first-order in substrate and oxidant, and inverse second order in inhibitor alcohol, under pseudo-first conditions in catalyst. The rate is slowed by substitution of electron-withdrawing substituents on the olefin and varies slightly with solvent, CH2Cl2 being the solvent of choice. Asymmetric induction suffers when the size of the alkyl hydroperoxide is reduced. Kinetic resolution of secondary allylic alcohols is shown to be sensitive to the size of the tartrate ester group and insensitive to the steric nature of inhibitor alcohol. Most importantly, the species containing equimolar amounts of Ti and tartrate is shown to be the most active catalyst in the reaction mixture, mediating reaction at much faster rates that titanium tetraalkoxide alone.
PROCESS FOR COOXIDIZING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING EPOXY COMPOUNDS AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ESTERS OR LACTONES
申请人:Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
公开号:EP0990631A1
公开(公告)日:2000-04-05
According to the inventive co-oxidation process of organic compounds, (A) a compound selected from (A1) a compound having a non-aromatic ethylenic bond and (A2) a ketone or an alcohol corresponding to the ketone is oxidized by molecular oxygen in the presence of N-hydroxyphthalimide or another imide compound and in the coexistence of (B) a compound oxidizable by the imide compound and oxygen and different from the compound (A). As the compound (B), (a) primary or secondary alcohols (e.g., benzhydrol, cyclohexanol), (b) compounds each having a carbon-hydrogen bond at the adjacent position to an unsaturated bond (e.g., tetralin, ethylbenzene) and the like can be used. According to this process, a corresponding epoxy compound from the compound (A1) having a non-aromatic ethylenic bond, and a corresponding ester or lactone from the ketone or its corresponding alcohol (A2) can be obtained in satisfactory yields.