Trisubstituted cyclooctene synthesis at the limits of relay ring-closing metathesis: a racemic difluorinated analogue of fucose

Tetrahedron

Volumn 65, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 9637-9646

  Ashworth, Ian W ^a   Miles, Jonathan A L ^b   Nelson, David J ^c   Percy, Jonathan M ^c   Singh, Kuldip ^b  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Strathclyde   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2,3 Wittig rearrangement; Effective molarity; Fluorinated building block; Fucose analogue; Mechanism; Medium ring; Metallated enol acetal; Mimetics; Monosaccharide; Relay ring closing metathesis; Ring closing metathesis; Trisubstituted alkene

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOCTANE DERIVATIVE; FUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; HYDROXYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RING CLOSING METATHESIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 70349729948     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2009.08.076     Document Type: Article

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