Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Efficient transformation of methyl propargyl ethers into α, β-unsaturated ketones

Y Fukuda, K Utimoto

Index: Fukuda, Yukitoshi; Utimoto, Kiitiro Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1991 , vol. 64, # 6 p. 2013 - 2015

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Citation Number: 109

Abstract

Methyl propargyl ethers, obtained from carbonyl compounds by successive treatment with an acetylide and MeI, were easily converted to the corresponding α, β-unsaturated ketone by regioselective hydration of acetylenic moiety followed by elimination of methanol under the catalytic action of Au (III).