Anomalous Behaviour in Some Nucleophilic Ring Opening of Furyl-2-oxirane

Abstract

The behaviour of furyl-2-oxirane in some nucleophilic ring opening reactions was studied.The reductions of epoxides with metal hydrides have been extensively studied.lIn the case of NaBHq reduction the process has long been considered to be very slow2 and recently reductions of arenc oxides with NaBH4 in a single solvent have been performed.3The regioselectivity of thls reaction indicates that the nucleophile