3,4-Dichloro-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone treated with methyl chloroformate in the presence of diisopropylethylamine (Hünig's base) gave the corresponding carbonate. The labile methoxycarbonyloxy group smoothly undergoes substitution by amino alcohols. The obtained 5-(w-hydroxyalkylamino) mucochloric acid derivatives reacted with peracetylated glucals using triphenylphosphine hydrobromide as a cata...

A new tetrakis(pyrazolyl)borate ligand bearing triphenylphosphine oxide moieties appended to the 3-position of the pyrazolyl rings is reported and shown to display varied coordination chemistry from tridentate N(2)O coordination with thallium to hexadentate N(3)O(3) coordination with europium.

An oxidative amination of allenes using a single hypervalent iodine reagent is reported. The reaction proceeds very efficiently for monosubstituted allenes and leads to formation of the corresponding propargylic amines, either as the internal or as the terminal amine. The respective reaction outcome could be influenced in favor of the former product by addition of triphenylphosphine oxide to th...

The oxygen-atom transfer reaction from the bis(mu-oxo)dicopper(III) complex [Cu(III)(2)(mu-O)(2)(L)(2)](2+), where L =N,N,N',N' -tetraethylethylenediamine, to PPh(3) has been studied by UV-vis, EPR, (1)H NMR and Cu K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy in parallel at low temperatures (193 K) and above. Under aerobic conditions (excess dioxygen), 1 reacted with PPh(3), giving O=Ph(3) and a diamag...

Olefination of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes with ethyl diazoacetate was achieved in excellent yields with triphenylphosphine and catalytic amounts of iron(II) meso-tetra(p-tolyl)porphyrin. The reaction conditions are mild and the process is efficient and highly selective (>90%) for the synthesis of the trans-olefin isomer. Results of mechanistic studies are discussed.