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meta-Chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA or mCPBA) is a peroxycarboxylic acid. It is a white solid often used widely as an oxidant in organic synthesis. mCPBA is often preferred to other peroxy acids because of its relative ease of handling. [1] mCPBA is a strong oxidizing agent that may cause fire upon contact with flammable material. [2]
The reaction proceeds through what is commonly known as the "butterfly mechanism", first proposed by Bartlett, wherein the peracid is intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded at the transition state. [5] Although there are frontier orbital interactions in both directions, the peracid is generally viewed as the electrophile and the alkene as the ...
Original reactions reported by Baeyer and Villiger. There were three suggested reaction mechanisms of the Baeyer–Villiger oxidation that seemed to fit with observed reaction outcomes. [16] These three reaction mechanisms can really be split into two pathways of peroxyacid attack – on either the oxygen or the carbon of the carbonyl group. [17]
The mechanism of epoxidation with dioxiranes likely involves concerted oxygen transfer through a spiro transition state. As oxygen transfer occurs, the plane of the oxirane is perpendicular to and bisects the plane of the alkene pi system. The configuration of the alkene is maintained in the product, ruling out long-lived radical intermediates.
The Juliá–Colonna epoxidation is an asymmetric poly-leucine catalyzed nucleophilic epoxidation of electron deficient olefins in a triphasic system.The reaction was reported by Sebastian Juliá at the Chemical Institute of Sarriá in 1980, [1] with further elaboration by both Juliá and Stefano Colonna (Istituto di Chimica Industriale dell'Università, Milan, Italy).
Although the presence of an allylic alcohol does lead to increased stereoselectivity, the rates of these reactions are slower than systems lacking alcohols. However, the reaction rates of substrates with a hydrogen bonding group are still faster than the equivalent protected substrates. This observation is attributed to a balance of two factors.
A number of other reagents bring about this reaction. Scheme 1. Selenium dioxide oxidation. In terms of reaction mechanism, SeO 2 and the allylic substrate react via pericyclic process beginning with an ene reaction that activates the C−H bond. The second step is a [2,3] sigmatropic reaction.
In any of the pairwise mechanisms with olefin pairing as rate-determining step this compound, a secondary reaction product of C12 with C6, would form well after formation of the two primary reaction products C12 and C16. In 1974 Casey was the first to implement carbenes into the metathesis reaction mechanism: [27]