A cascade cyclization route to adjacent bistetrahydrofurans from chiral triepoxyfarnesyl bromides

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6753-6757

  Marshall, James A ^a   Hann, Ronald K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ZINC;

CASCADE CYCLIZATION; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; IN-SITU; LEWIS ACIDS;

CYCLIZATION;

BROMINE DERIVATIVE; LEWIS ACID; TETRAHYDROFURAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CYCLIZATION; ELIMINATION REACTION; REDUCTION;

CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; FURANS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PRENYLATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEREOISOMERISM; ZINC;

EID: 51549117673     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo801188w     Document Type: Article

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