Facile preparation of fluorine-containing 2,3-epoxypropanoates and their epoxy ring-opening reactions with various nucleophiles

• Yutaro Miyashita,
• Sae Someya,
• Tomoko Kawasaki-Takasuka,
• Tomohiro Agou and
• Takashi Yamazaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2421–2433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.206

• mainly afford 2-substituted 3-hydroxyesters usually in a highly anti selective manner. Keywords: α,β-unsaturated esters; epoxyesters; fluorine; Grignard-based cuprates; nucleophiles; Introduction Fluorine-containing compounds have been utilized in diverse fields due to their special character

• reactivity of the CF3-containing ethyl 2,3-epoxybutanoate 2a towards a variety of organometallic species [27][28][29], because relatively readily accessible Grignard-based cuprates were not involved, their applicability to 2b as the representative partner was investigated here (Table 5). The 1:2 ratio of CuI

• ) Grignard-based cuprates. These processes usually yielded the addition products along with the epoxy ring opening at the 2 position via the SN2 mechanism, affording 3-Rf-3-hydroxyesters with the incorporation of a variety of substituents at the 2-position in a highly anti-selective fashion. We believe that