Organic letters

Ru (III)-catalyzed cyclization of arene-alkene substrates via intramolecular electrophilic hydroarylation

SW Youn, SJ Pastine, D Sames

Index: Youn, So Won; Pastine, Stefan J.; Sames, Dalibor Organic Letters, 2004 , vol. 6, # 4 p. 581 - 584

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Citation Number: 138

Abstract

We herein report that RuCl3/AgOTf has proven to be a hydroarylation catalyst with an efficiency and scope superior to previously known methods. This catalyst demonstrated consistent performance with arene-ene substrates of diverse structural features, providing good to excellent yields of cyclization products (chromanes, tetralins, terpenoids, dihydrocoumarins).