Tetrahedron letters

Mild and reliable cleavage sequence for phenoxy acetates

D Mirk, SR Waldvogel

Index: Mirk, Daniela; Waldvogel, Siegfried R. Tetrahedron Letters, 2004 , vol. 45, # 42 p. 7911 - 7914

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Abstract

A novel combination of reliable transformations like ester saponification and subsequent Curtius-rearrangement employing mild reaction conditions, offers the first synthetically interesting strategy for the removal of methoxycarbonylmethyl groups from phenolic oxygens. This methodology gives also access to labile iodosubstituted phenols.