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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
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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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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