An Unusual Access to Medium Sized Cycloalkynes by a New Gold (I)??Catalysed Cycloisomerisation of Diynes

Y Odabachian, XF Le Goff…

Index: Odabachian, Yann; Le Goff, Xavier F.; Gagosz, Fabien Chemistry - A European Journal, 2009 , vol. 15, # 36 p. 8966 - 8970

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Abstract

Over the last decade, gold catalysis has demonstrated a high synthetic potential for the formation of various functionalised structures by the addition of a wide range of nucleophiles to gold-activated alkynes or allenes.[1] While a series of carbon nucleophiles (alkene, allene, aryl) have been used for this purpose, it is surprising that only little attention has been given to the use of alkynes.[2] Such a lack of interest is probably due to the inherent ...