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ChemInform Abstract: Oxygen-Directed Carbocyclizations of 2,3-Epoxy Alcohols: Stereoselective Construction of Polyfunctionalized Seven-Membered Rings by 7-endo-Tet Ring Closures.

✍ Scribed by Charles M. Marson; Jane McGregor; Afzal Khan; Trevor J. Grinter


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Weight
36 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0931-7597

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✦ Synopsis


Oxygen-Directed Carbocyclizations of 2,3-Epoxy Alcohols: Stereoselective Construction of Polyfunctionalized Seven-Membered Rings by 7-endo-Tet Ring Closures. -The first examples of alkyne-epoxy alcohol cyclizations that lead to seven-membered carbocyclic rings are reported together with the first comprehensive study that demarcates the influence of bidentate chelation control during cyclizations of 2,3-epoxy alcohols. An alkyne or alkene terminus is shown to cyclize onto an epoxy alcohol unit to give a cycloheptanoid ring incorporating syn-1,2-dihydroxylated functionality.

Unusually, these carbocyclizations take place at the less substituted epoxide carbon atom of the epoxy alcohols. -(MARSON,