The Journal of organic chemistry

Intramolecular alkyne carbomercuration by allylic silanes: A new carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction

H Huang, CJ Forsyth

Index: Huang, He; Forsyth, Craig J. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1997 , vol. 62, # 24 p. 8595 - 8596

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Abstract

Intramolecular alkyne carbomercuration (IAC) of alkynyl-tethered enol silanes is a mild, versatile, and highyielding method for the formation of cyclic products bearing a mercuric- functionalized exocyclic alkene β to a carbonyl group. 1 The vinyl mercurial moiety of the