The Journal of Organic Chemistry

A complex induced proximity effect in the anionic Fries rearrangement of o-iodophenyl benzoates: synthesis of dihydro-O-methylsterigmatocystin and other xanthones

S Horne, R Rodrigo

Index: Horne, Stephen; Rodrigo, Russell Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 55, # 15 p. 4520 - 4522

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Abstract

(7) (a) The Doyle mechani~m'~,~~ for Rh(I1)-catalyzed diazo- carbonyl/olefin cyclopropanation involving an electrophilic attack of the carbene carbon on the alkene with no prior complexation of the olefin and metal has a vinylogue which may be be envisioned to proceed via species 8. (b) Doyle, MP; Griffin, J. H.; Bagheri, V.; Dorow, RL Organometallics 1984, 3, 53. (8) (a) Mykytka, J. P.; Jones, WM J. Am. Chem. SOC. 1975,97,5933. (b) Bineer. P.: Buch. HM ...