Organic Letters 2011-03-04

Novel domino oxidative coupling: C-C bond formation sequence to highly functionalized dibenzo[a,c]cycloheptenes.

Kristina Hackeloer, Gregor Schnakenburg, Siegfried R Waldvogel

Index: Org. Lett. 13(5) , 916-9, (2011)

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Abstract

A domino sequence involving various MoCl(5)-mediated oxidations followed by trapping and supposed [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement provides a fast access to the full carbon skeleton of metasequirin-B. A variety of different moieties R(1) and R(2) are tolerated.