Lithium diorganocuprates are now widely used in conjugate additions to a,a-unsaturated car-bony1 compounds' and in coupling reactions with alkyl halides2, allyli~acetates~, and other compounds possessing good leaving groups. Here we report a new reaction of lithium dialkylcuprates which is formally
A direct synthesis of α,β-butenolides by reaction of lithium β-lithioacrylates with carbonyl compounds
✍ Scribed by Drury Caine; A.Stephen Frobese
- Book ID
- 104237445
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
A large number of biologically important natural products contain an a,&butenolide ring. 1 Much of the recent methodology on the synthesis of a,&butenolides which have the double bond unsubstituted or bearing alkyl substituents has been based upon the thermal fragmentation of ci-seleninyl' and a-3 or B-sulfinyl-y-lactones. 4 Other methods have involved selective reductions of y-hydroxy-a,&acetylenic acids, la,5 intramolecular cyclizations of a-acetoxy methyl ketones,6 heating of E-4-brow-2-butenoic acids,7 electrolytic decarboxylations of y-substituted paraconic acids, 8 pyrolysis of pyraxolines of y-butyrolactones, 9a &alkylidenebutyrolactones.gb and isomeriaations of Recently, we reported a convenient synthesis of y-butyrolactones (butanolides) by addition of lithium B-lithiopropionate to carbonyl compounds followed by lactonization. 10 We have now
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