A new route to trienals using 2-substituted 2 H-pyran-based Wittig reagents

K Hemming, RJK Taylor

Index: Hemming; Taylor Journal of the Chemical Society - Series Chemical Communications, 1993 , # 18 p. 1409 - 1410

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Abstract

A procedure is presented which allows the six-carbon homologation of aldehydes to give the corresponding trienals viathe likely intermediacy of the novel 2- triphenylphosphranylidenemethyl-2H-pyran; application of this methodology to a short synthesis of the marine alarm pheromone, navenone B, is also described.