Phthalimide → (S)-(+)-N-(2,3-Epoxypropyl)phthalimide

HRID 1853943Notes

Reaction equation

[O:1]1[CH2:3][C@@H:2]1[CH2:4]O.[C:6]1(=[O:16])[NH:10][C:9](=[O:11])[C:8]2=[CH:12][CH:13]=[CH:14][CH:15]=[C:7]12.C1(P(C2C=CC=CC=2)C2C=CC=CC=2)C=CC=CC=1.N(C(OCC)=O)=NC(OCC)=O>O1CCCC1>[O:1]1[CH2:3][C@@H:2]1[CH2:4][N:10]1[C:6](=[O:16])[C:7]2[C:8](=[CH:12][CH:13]=[CH:14][CH:15]=2)[C:9]1=[O:11]

Participants

Conditions

Temperature: 0 °C

Procedure

To a cold solution of (S)-1-oxiranylmethanol (5 g, 67.5 mmol) and phthalimide (9.9 g, 67.3 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (200 mL) in ice bath was added triphenylphosphine (17.9 g, 68.2 mmol) and diethyl azodicarboxylate (12.3 g, 70.6 mmol). The mixture was stirred at 0° C. for 2 h and at ambient temperature for 48 h. The mixture was concentrated under vacuum, and the oily residue was purified by flash silica column chromatography, yielding the desired product (10.1 g) as pale yellow solid: Rf=0.51 in 1:1 EtOAc/hexane. 1H-NMR (CDCl3, 300 MHz): δ (ppm) 7.76-7.64 (m, 2H), 7.63-7.60 (m, 2H), 3.9-3.8 (dd, 1H), 3.70-3.65 (dd, 1H), 3.15 (m, 1H), 2.70-2.67 (dd, 1H), 2.58-2.55 (dd, 1H).

Workup

concentrationThe mixture was concentrated under vacuum
customthe oily residue was purified by flash silica column chromatography

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-85d08d77c08240db9f245ec8ac392385
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2015_02
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US08962653B2

Reaction notes

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