Stereoselective oxymercuration of cyclopropylcarbinols with anchimeric assistance by aromatic groups

✍ Scribed by Janine Cossy; Nicolas Blanchard; Christophe Meyer

• Book ID: 104250496
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)00069-2

✦ Synopsis

Cyclopropylcarbinols bearing an adjacent stereocenter substituted by a phenyl group undergo anchimerically assisted mercurations, leading after reductive demercuration to oxygenated heterocycles or acyclic alcohols depending on the relative configurations.