ChemInform Abstract: Unexpected Iron(III) Chloride-Catalyzed Dimerization of 1,1,3-Trisubstituted-prop-2-yn-1-ols as an Expedient Route to Highly Conjugated Indenes.

✍ Scribed by Weidong Rao; Philip Wai Hong Chan

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 35 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201102103

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The iron‐catalyzed route to the conjugated indenes is based on dimerization of trisubstituted propargylic alcohols such as (I) and (IV).