(S)-2-((3-Nitrophenoxy)methyl)oxirane → 3-{[(2S)-Oxiran-2-yl]methoxy}aniline

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Compound 16a-S (0.5 g, 2.6 mmol) and % 5 Pd/C(en) (10% of the weight of starting material) in 5 ml anhydrous THF was hydrogenated at ambient pressure and temperature for 3-5 hours. The reaction mixture was filtered by using a membrane filter (13, 0.22 μm), and the filtrate was concentrated in vacuo. The resulting compound is a crude mixture of nitro group reduction and epoxide ring opening. Isolation of the desired compound was difficult because of the lability of the components of the mixture on silica gel. The product ratio of the NO2 reduction and ring opening (80:20) was determined on the basis of the integration ratio of the epoxide-ring protons from nitro group reduction and the methyl proton of the ring opened compound (98% total yield for the mixture).

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