Tetrahedron Letters

Gold (I)-catalyzed arylmethylation of terminal alkynes

C Li, W Li, J Wang

Index: Li, Changkun; Li, Weibin; Wang, Jianbo Tetrahedron Letters, 2009 , vol. 50, # 21 p. 2533 - 2535

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Abstract

Gold-catalyzed reactions have attracted considerable attention in recent years. 1 The research activities in this field so far have been mostly concentrated on the reaction of gold-activated alkynes functioning as electron-deficient species to accept nucleophilic attack (Fig. 1. path a). The alternative process, namely the gold-alkyne species functioning as nucleophile (path b), is much less developed except simple protonation or elimination. ... Gold-catalyzed reaction of alkyne. Gold- ...