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Syntesizing epoxide from reactants containing less than 6 carbon atoms

Maria_88
in Organic Chemistry

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I need to show how I cansynthesize the following compound from any starting materials containing no more than six carbon atoms.

 

 

http://imgur.com/EYV3a

 

Could someone please help me?

 

/Maria

Benzyl grignard + cyclopentanone, work uo to give tertiary alcohol, treat with sulphuric acid to give alkene, treat with MCBPA to give epoxide

Edited by Tartaglia

Heck reaction betwen styrene and bromocylopentane. This will give u the alkene which can then be oxidised with mCPBA

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