title: Design, Synthesis, and Application of Chiral Nonracemic Lithium Amide Bases in Enantioselective Deprotonation of Epoxides.
abstract: The reaction of epoxides with chiral nonracemic lithium amide bases, designed and prepared from (R)-phenylglycine, has been studied in detail. A maximum of 80% ee was obtained for conversion of cyclohexene oxide to (S)-2-cyclohexen-1-ol. Enantioselective deprotonation of a variety of other epoxides was studied. A cyclopentanoid core unit for prostaglandin synthesis was synthesized in 97% ee.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 208 016.
authors.forename: Debnath
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhuniya
authors.forename: Arpita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: DattaGupta
authors.forename: Vinod K.
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Singh