Regioselective ring-closing metathesis o
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Yanming Du; David F Wiemer
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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French
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A series of acrylate esters was prepared by treatment of representative terpenoid aldehydes with allyl or vinyl magnesium bromide followed by reaction with acryloyl chloride. In all cases, ring-closing metathesis (RCM) resulted in regioselective formation of unsaturated lactones through metathesis o