Highly efficient Brønsted acid-catalyzed cycloisomerizations of alkynes bearing bis(acetoxy) groups to indenyl ketones

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 350, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 797-801

  Liu, Yuanhong ^a   Zhou, Shaolin ^a   Li, Guijie ^a   Yan, Bin ^a   Guo, Shenghai ^a   Zhou, Yebing ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Wang, Peng George ^b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkynes; Br nsted acids; Cycloisomerization; Indenyl ketones; Propargyl esters

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849094456     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 15213897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200800037     Document Type: Article

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