Helvetica Chimica Acta

An environmentally benign catalytic method for efficient and selective nucleophilic ring opening of oxiranes by zirconium tetrakis (dodecyl sulfate)

M Jafarpour, A Rezaeifard, M Aliabadi

Index: Jafarpour, Maasoumeh; Rezaeifard, Abdolreza; Aliabadi, Marzieh Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2010 , vol. 93, # 3 p. 405 - 413

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 20

Abstract

Abstract An operationally simple and environmentally benign protocol for a highly regio-and chemoselective preparation of β-substituted alcohols by means of ring-opening reactions of oxiranes with various aliphatic alcohols, H 2 O, NaN 3, and NaCN as nucleophiles in the presence of catalytic amounts of zirconium tetrakis (dodecyl sulfate) as Lewis acid/surfactant- combined catalysts (LASCs) was developed. The high efficiency of the catalyst was ...