Rhenium-catalyzed aromatic propargylation

Organic Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1325-1327

  Kennedy Smith, Joshua J ^a   Young, Lauren A ^a   Toste, F Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; BETA APOPICROPODOPHYLIN; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MIMOSIFOLIOL; O METHYLDETROL; PODOPHYLLIN; RHENIUM; RHENIUM COMPLEX; TOLTERODINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; ISOMER; MOISTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 2542466672     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol049649p     Document Type: Article

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30. 6b complexes affords pyran 8, while our rhenium-catalyzed reaction exclusively produces propargyl adduct 7b (Scheme 3). This suggests that the reactions are proceeding through different mechanisms or nucleophilic attack on different electrophilic intermediates.