ChemInform Abstract: Alkyne Competition in the Benzannulation Reaction with Chromium Carbene Complexes.

✍ Scribed by Chunrui Wu; Dmytro O. Berbasov; William D. Wulff

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 52 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201045029

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

It is found that chromium carbene complexes react much faster with terminal alkynes than with internal alkynes which allows highly selective formation of products of type (IV), (VII), and (XII) after oxidation.