Trialkylaluminum-alkylidene iodide. A powerful cyclopropanation agent with unique selectivity

…, Y Fukutani, H Yamamoto

Index: Maruoka, Keiji; Fukutani, Yoshimi; Yamamoto, Hisashi Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 22 p. 4412 - 4414

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Abstract

Sir: The cyclopropanation of olefins is a highly useful synthetic operation in organic synthesis. The importance of this transformation stems from the occurrence of cy- clopropane rings in many natural products and from the utility of cyclopropanes as synthetic intermediates for ring expansions and chain e1aborations.l Here we wish to report a highly convenient and versatile method for the synthesis of cyclopropanes from olefins which was found to ...