Abstract
A new, stereocontrolled rearrangement of epoxy silyl ethers leading to β-siloxy aldehydes has been effected with stoichiometric use of exceptionally bulky, oxygenophilic methylaluminum bis(4-bromo-2,6-di- trert-butylphenoxide) (MABR) under mild conditions. Used in combination with the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols, this rearrangement represents a new approach to the synthesis of various optically active β-hydroxy aldehydes, useful intermediates in natural product synthesis. The modified organoaluminum reagent, MABR is also applicable to the transformation of a variety of simple epoxides to carbonyl compounds with high efficiency and selectivity. Further, the catalytic version for the rearrangement of epoxy silyl ethers as well as simple epoxides has been newly devised. The scope and limitation of this catalytic method has been clarified with various epoxy substrates.
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