Tetrahedron

Synthesis of substituted cyclopropanes from 1, 3-diols through the corresponding cyclic sulfates

D Guijarro, M Yus

Index: Guijarro, David; Yus, Miguel Tetrahedron, 1995 , vol. 51, # 42 p. 11445 - 11456

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Abstract

The reaction of different cyclic sulfates 2 (easily prepared from the corresponding 1, 3-diols 1 following the Sharpless methodology) with an excess of lithium powder and a catalytic amount of DTBB (5 mol%) leads to the corresponding substituted cyclopropanes 3 through a