Gold-catalyzed synthesis of polycyclic enones from carbon tethered 1,3-enynyl carbonyls via tandem heteroenyne metathesis and Nazarov reaction

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3137-3139

  Jin, Tienan ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshinori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 56949099150     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801265s     Document Type: Article

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26. CCDC-685029 contains the supplementary crystallographic data for 2k. The detailed data can be obtained free of charge from The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre at www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/data-request/cif. The stereochemistry of products, 2b, 2f′, 2h, 2i, and 2j, was confirmed by measurement of various 1D, 2D, and NOE spectra. See Supporting Information for details.