Experimental and theoretical investigation into the gold-catalyzed reactivity of cyclopropenylmethyl acetates

Elaine Seraya, Eric Slack, Alireza Ariafard*, Brian F. Yates, Christopher J.T. Hyland

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Abstract

Cyclopropenylmethyl acetates have been shown to undergo rapid and stereoselective gold catalyzed rearrangement to Z-acetoxydienes in high yield. DFT calculations have shown that while several reaction pathways can be envisaged only a single, ring-opening one operates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4768-4771
Number of pages4
JournalOrganic Letters
Volume12
Issue number21
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Nov 2010

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