Unusual stereochemical course of epoxide rearrangement in a carvone-derived series

✍ Scribed by Guenter Neef; Siegfried Baesler; Gisbert Depke; Harry Vierhufe

• Book ID: 104262401
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 230 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(99)01623-8

✦ Synopsis

Carvone-derived 2,3-epoxy alcohol derivatives rearrange with stereoselective formation of ring-contracted ketones. In contrast to previously described similar processes, the stereochemical result seems to be independent of epoxide configuration.