Organic letters

Ring Strain-Promoted Allylic Transposition of Cyclic Silyl Ethers

I Volchkov, S Park, D Lee

Index: Volchkov, Ivan; Park, Sangho; Lee, Daesung Organic Letters, 2011 , vol. 13, # 13 p. 3530 - 3533

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 19

Abstract

Relief of the ring strain of medium-sized rings promotes a regioselective allylic transposition of a C–O bond when catalyzed by rhenium oxide. Through the allylic transposition, eight- membered cyclic silyl ethers undergo ring contraction to the corresponding six-membered siloxacycles.