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A Short Note on Epoxide

Sudha M Department of Organic Chemistry, Vivekavardhini College, Kothagudem, Telangana, India

ABSTRACT Epoxide, cyclic ether with a three-membered ring. the essential structure of an epoxide contains an oxygen atom attached to two adjacent carbon atoms of a hydrocarbon. The strain of the three-membered ring makes an epoxide far more reactive than a typical acyclic ether. Ethylene oxide is economically the foremost important epoxide and is formed from oxidation of ethylene over a silver catalyst. it's used as a fumigant and to form antifreeze, glycol , and other useful compounds. Keywords: Uses; Chlorohydrin

INTRODUCTION the corresponding cis-alkene. This hydration of an epoxide doesn't change the oxidation number of any atoms or Another important industrial route to epoxides requires a two- groups. step process. First, an alkene is converted to a, and second, the chlorohydrin is treated with a base to eliminate acid , giving the Epoxides also can be opened by other anhydrous acids (HX) to epoxide; this is often the tactic wont to make propylene oxide. make a trans halohydrin. When both the epoxide carbons are either primary or secondary the halogen anion will attack the Epoxides are easily opened, under acidic or basic conditions, to less substituted carbon and an SN2 like reaction. However, offer a spread of products with useful functional groups. for if one among the epoxide carbons is tertiary, the halogen anion instance , the acid- or base-catalyzed hydrolysis of propylene will primarily attack the tertialy cabon during a SN1 like oxide gives propanediol . reaction. Epoxides are often wont to assemble polymers referred to as epoxies, which are excellent adhesives and useful surface CONCLUSION coatings. The foremost common epoxy is made from the reaction of epichlorohydrin with bisphenol A. Ethylene epoxide has many uses including generation of surfactants and detergents. Epoxy glues and structural materials Epoxides could also be cleaved by aqueous acid to offer glycols are a results of epoxides reaction with amines. it's used as a that are often diastereomeric with those prepared by the syn- stabilizer in materials like PVC. they're also utilized hydroxylation reaction described above. Proton transfer from the in manufacture of Epoxy resists that have low viscosity and acid catalyst generates the conjugate acid of the epoxide, which without compromising strength and physical properties. is attacked by nucleophiles like water within the same way that Epoxides also are utilized in things like insecticides, aerosols, the cyclic bromonium ion described above undergoes reaction. resins and chemical intermediates. The result's anti-hydroxylation of the covalent bond , in contrast to the syn-stereoselectivity of the sooner method. within the following equation this procedure is illustrated for a cis- REFERENCES disubstituted epoxide, which, of course, might be prepared from 1. Leroy GW. Epoxide. Chem. 2008.

*Correspondence to:Sudha M, Department of Organic Chemistry, Vivekavardhini College, Kothagudem, Telangana, India, E-mail: [email protected] Received date:June 05, 2020; Accepted date:June 20, 2020; Published date:June 27, 2020 Citation:Sudha M (2020) A Short Note on Bromine. Organic Chem Curr Res. 9:210.DOI: 10.35248/2161-0401.20.9.210 Copyright: © 2020 Sudha M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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