Synthesis and reactions of allylic azides of the adamantane series

Abstract

A mixture of nucleophilic substitution product and isomeric azide resulting from [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement was obtained by interaction of allyl bromides of adamantane series with sodium azide. Epoxidation reactions of allylic azides of the adamantane series were investigated. The reduction of the obtained trans -2-(adamantan-1-yl)-3-(azidomethyl)oxirane with lithium alumohydride synthesized ( S *)-(adamantan-1-yl)[( S *)-aziridin-2-yl]methanol which, when heated with hydrochloric acid, gives the product of the aziridine ring opening is (1 S *,2 R *)-1-(adamantan-1-yl)-3-chloro-1-hydroxypropan-2-amino chloride.