A new Ru-catalyzed cascade reaction forming polycyclic cyclohexadienes from 1,6-diynes and alkenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 29, 2006, Pages 9262-9263

  Varela, Jesús A ^a   Rubín, Silvia G ^a   González Rodríguez, Carlos ^a   Castedo, Luis ^a   Saá, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; CYCLOHEXADIENE; METAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBON; RUTHENIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; CYCLOADDITION; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33746331719     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja057306w     Document Type: Article

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35. To ascertain why acyclic olefins 2 gave exclusively open triene 3 by β-elimination from ruthenacycle III (path A) and cyclic olefins to the cycloadduct 5 by reductive elimination (path B), we undertook DFT calculations using B3LYP/LANL2DZ. See Supporting Information for details.