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Unexpected syn hydride migration in the non-aldol aldol reaction
Michael E Jung1, Alexandra van den Heuvel, Andrew G Leach
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA. jung@chem.ucla.edu
Organic Letters
|September 12, 2003
Abstract:
[structure: see text] Non-aldol aldol rearrangement of the epoxy silyl ether 13b afforded the expected anti methyl ketone 14, while the diastereomeric epoxy silyl ether 13a afforded the syn methyl ketone 8b via an unprecedented syn hydride migration. Calculations suggest that this unusual reaction proceeds via the carbocation, which cannot easily rotate due to steric hindrance.