Enantioselective synthesis of chromenes

✍ Scribed by Christophe Hardouin; Lise Burgaud; Alain Valleix; Eric Doris

• Book ID: 104252715
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 141 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)02614-x

✦ Synopsis

A concise approach for the synthesis of optically active chromenes is reported. The process described herein involves, as the key steps, a Sharpless-epoxidation, a selective deoxygenation, and a ring-closing metathesis.