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

HRID 2036767Notes

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-295d2435bdbb4388a8aea83951a1d19b
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2013_11
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US08575192B2

Reaction notes

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