Tetrahedron Letters

Preparation of oxetanes by silicon-directed 4-exo trig electrophilic cyclisations of homoallylic alcohols

M Rofoo, MC Roux, G Rousseau

Index: Rofoo, Mazin; Roux, Marie-Claude; Rousseau, Gerard Tetrahedron Letters, 2001 , vol. 42, # 13 p. 2481 - 2484

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Abstract

The reaction of homoallylic alcohols with bis (sym-collidine) bromine (I) hexafluoroantimonate led in good yields to the formation of oxetanes if a silyl group was fixed on the carbon carbon double bond in terminal position. This reaction was stereospecific when no supplementary substituent was present on the double bond.