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

HRID 2223161Notes

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-b3a5dfc9012c4f3192d6c132d836a2f5
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2008_05
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US07375114B2

Reaction notes

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