Regio- and Chemoselective Ring Opening of Epoxides to Bromohydrins with Dilithium Tetrabromocuprate
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Synlett
- Vol. 1991 (04) , 248-250
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-1991-20695
Abstract
Dilithium tetrabromocuprate, prepared from lithium bromide and copper(II) bromide, regioselectively converts functionalized epoxides (11 examples) to vicinal bromohydrins resulting from nucleophilic attack by bromide at the less substituted epoxide carbon.Keywords
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