Tetrahedron letters

Facile oxidative cyclization and carbonylation of allylicalcohols

H Alper, D Leonard

Index: Alper, Howard; Leonard, Daniele Tetrahedron Letters, 1985 , vol. 26, # 46 p. 5639 - 5642

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Abstract

Abstract Palladium chloride catalyzed reaction [room temperature, one atmosphere] of primary, secondary, and tertiary allylic alcohols with carbon monoxide and oxygen, hydrochloric acid, and cupric chloride in tetrahydrofuran affords five-membered ring lactones.