title: Non-Cp titanium alkoxide-based homolytic ring-opening of epoxides by an intramolecular hydrogen abstraction in β-titanoxy radical intermediates.
abstract: A low-valent titanium species derived in situ from Ti(O-i-Pr)(4), Me(3)SiCl and Mg powder in tetrahydrofuran reacted with epoxides to selectively provide less hindered alcohols via a homolytic ring-opening of epoxides, in which the intermediate β-titanoxy radical intramolecularly abstracted a hydrogen atom from an alkoxy moiety in the titanium complexes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Material & Life Chemistry, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawaji
authors.forename: Noriaki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shohji
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyashita
authors.forename: Sentaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okamoto