Selectivity control in lewis acid catalyzed regiodivergent tandem cationic cyclization/ring expansion terminated by pinacol rearrangement

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 48, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 6093-6096

  Liu, Lu ^a   Zhang, Junliang ^a,b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Cyclization; Domino reactions; Lewis acids; Pinacol rearrangement; Regioselectivity

Indexed keywords

DICHLOROETHANE; DOMINO REACTIONS; LEWIS ACID; LEWIS ACIDS; PINACOL REARRANGEMENT; PINACOLS; REACTION SEQUENCES; SELECTIVITY CONTROL;

ACIDS; REACTION KINETICS; REGIOSELECTIVITY;

CYCLIZATION;

EID: 70349909806     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200901628     Document Type: Article

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