Abstract A general synthetic route to α-spirolactones and-lactams from 2-diazo-1, 3- dicarbonyl compounds,(homo) allylic alcohols or amines and acrylic derivatives, involving a single consecutive reaction consisting of a Wolff rearrangement/α-oxo ketene trapping/cross metathesis/Michael addition sequence is described. During the consecutive reaction optimization, the organocatalytic activity of N, N-diaryl-1, 3-imidazol (in)-2-ylidene N- ...
[Mohr, Justin T.; Behenna, Douglas C.; Harned, Andrew M.; Stoltz, Brian M. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2005 , vol. 44, # 42 p. 6924 - 6927]