Palladium-catalyzed cocyclization of arynes with alkynes: Selective synthesis of phenanthrenes and naphthalenes

…, D Pérez, E Guitián, L Castedo

Index: Pena, Diego; Perez, Dolores; Guitian, Enrique; Castedo, Luis Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1999 , vol. 121, # 24 p. 5827 - 5828

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Abstract

Reactions mediated by transition metals have played a crucial role in the development of synthetic methodology during the last quarter of this century. A paradigm of the synthetic potential of these transformations is the metal-catalyzed cyclotrimerization of alkynes to afford aromatic compounds. 1 This extensively exploited reaction has been studied from the mechanistic point of view and has been expanded in scope to embrace cocyclizations of ...