Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Intramolecular cyclization of 3, 4-epoxy alcohols; oxetane formation.

A Murai, M Ono, T Masamune

Index: Murai,A. et al. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1977 , vol. 50, # 5 p. 1226 - 1231

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Citation Number: 17

Abstract

1-(2, 3-Epoxypropyl)-1-cyclohexanol (1) and its methyl analogues (2 and 3), when treated with base in 75% aqueous dimethyl sulfoxide, gave the corresponding oxetanes (9–11) as the main products, while treatment of compound 1 under anhydrous conditions afforded the oxolane dimer (17) as the sole identified product.