Studies on triacetic acid lactone-annulated heterocycles: synthesis of 3-aryloxyacetyl-6-methyl-2, 3-dihydrothieno [3, 2-c] pyran-4-ones by tandem cyclization
The hitherto unreported 3-aryloxyacetyl-6-methyl-2, 3-dihydrothieno [3, 2-c] pyran-4-ones were synthesized in 62–71% yield by the sulfoxide rearrangement of 4-(4′-aryloxybut-2′- ynylthio)-6-methyl-2-pyrone. The substrates were synthesized by phase-transfer-catalysed