• Title/Summary/Keyword: Regiospecific epoxide opening

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Regiospecific Ring-Opening of Unsymmetrical Epoxides to the Corresponding Less Substituted Alcohols by Newly-Devised Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Type Reagents

  • Cha, Jin Soon
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2012
  • A newly-devised Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley (MPV) reagents, such as diisobutylacetoxyalanes and diisobutylmethanesulfonylalanes, achieved a clean conversion of unsymmetrical epoxides to the corresponding less substituted alcohols. This review covers the recent developments for such a regiospecific ring-opening reaction of epoxides.