Cleavage of a carbon-carbon triple bond via gold-catalyzed cascade cyclization/oxidative cleavage reactions of (Z)-enynols with molecular oxygen.
A highly efficient carbon-carbon triple bond cleavage reaction of (Z)-enynols was developed, which offered a new route to highly substituted butenolides. The methodology is realized by a tandem reaction using a single gold(I) catalyst, which could catalyze different reactions of cyclization/oxidative cleavage in the same vessel.
Liu
Yuanhong
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State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, People's Republic of China. yhliu@mail.sioc.ac.cn
Song
Feijie
F
Guo
Shenghai
S