Oxetane

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Oxetane
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Names
Preferred IUPAC name
Oxetane [1]
Systematic IUPAC name
1,3-Epoxypropane
Oxacyclobutane
Other names
1,3-Propylene oxide
Trimethylene oxide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
102382
ChEBI
ChemSpider
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EC Number
  • 207-964-3
239520
PubChem CID
UNII
UN number 1280
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  • InChI=1/C3H6O/c1-2-4-3-1/h1-3H2
    Key: AHHWIHXENZJRFG-UHFFFAOYAE
  • C1CCO1
Properties
C3H6O
Molar mass 58.08 g/mol
Density 0.8930 g/cm3
Melting point −97 °C (−143 °F; 176 K)
Boiling point 49 to 50 °C (120 to 122 °F; 322 to 323 K)
1.3895 at 25 °C
Hazards
GHS labelling:
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Danger
H225, H302, H312, H332
P210, P233, P240, P241, P242, P243, P261, P264, P270, P271, P280, P301+P312, P302+P352, P303+P361+P353, P304+P312, P304+P340, P312, P322, P330, P363, P370+P378, P403+P235, P501
Flash point −28.3 °C; −19.0 °F; 244.8 K (NTP, 1992)
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Oxetane, or 1,3-propylene oxide, is a heterocyclic organic compound with the molecular formula C
3
H
6
O
, having a four-membered ring with three carbon atoms and one oxygen atom.

Contents

The term "an oxetane" or "oxetanes" refer to any organic compound containing the oxetane ring.

Production

A typical well-known method of preparation is the reaction of potassium hydroxide with 3-chloropropyl acetate at 150 °C: [2]

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Yield of oxetane made this way is c. 40%, as the synthesis can lead to a variety of by-products including water, potassium chloride, and potassium acetate.

Another possible reaction to form an oxetane ring is the Paternò–Büchi reaction. The oxetane ring can also be formed through diol cyclization [3] as well as through decarboxylation of a six-membered cyclic carbonate.[ citation needed ]

Derivatives

More than a hundred different oxetanes have been synthesized. [4] Functional groups can be added into any desired position in the oxetane ring, including fully fluorinated (perfluorinated) and fully deuterated analogues. Major examples are:

NameStructureBoiling point, Bp [°C]
3,3-Bis(chloromethyl)oxetane Bis(chloromethyl)oxetane.svg 198 [5]
3,3-Bis(azidomethyl)oxetane 3,3-Bis(azidomethyl)oxetane.svg 165 [6]
2-Methyloxetane 2-Methyloxetane.png 60 [4] [ failed verification ]
3-Methyloxetane 3-Methyloxetane.png 67 [4] [ failed verification ]
3-Azidooxetane 3-Azidooxetane.png 122 [7]
3-Nitrooxetane 3-Nitrooxetane.png 195 [8]
3,3-Dimethyloxetane 3,3-dimethyloxetane.png 80 [4] [ failed verification ]
3,3-Dinitrooxetane 3,3-Dinitrooxetane.png

Taxol

Paclitaxel with oxetane ring at right. Taxol.svg
Paclitaxel with oxetane ring at right.

Paclitaxel (Taxol) is an example of a natural product containing an oxetane ring. Taxol has become a major point of interest among researchers due to its unusual structure and success in the involvement of cancer treatment. [9] The attached oxetane ring is an important feature that is used for the binding of microtubules in structure activity; however little is known about how the reaction is catalyzed in nature, which creates a challenge for scientists trying to synthesize the product. [9]

Disparlure

Oxetane is used in one of the syntheses of Disparlure (Gypsy moth sexual pheromone). [10]

Reactions

Oxetanes are less reactive than epoxides, and generally unreactive in basic conditions, [11] although Grignard reagents at elevated temperatures [12] and complex hydrides will cleave them. [13] However, the ring strain does make them much more reactive than larger rings, [14] and oxetanes decompose in the presence of even mildly acidic nucleophiles. [15] In non-nucleophilic acids, they mainly isomerize to allyl alcohols. [16]

Noble metals tend to catalyze isomerization to a carbonyl. [17]

In industry, the parent compound, oxetane polymerizes to polyoxetane in the presence of a dry acid catalyst, [18] although the compound was described in 1967 as "rarely polymerized commercially". [19]

See also

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