Synthesis of benzofuranones related to diazonamide via an intramolecular Pummerer reaction

✍ Scribed by Philip Magnus; Jennifer D. Kreisberg

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(98)02386-7

✦ Synopsis

Treatment of in situ generated 2-thiomethyl-2-chloro-2-phenylacetyl aryl esters with SnCI4 (catalytic) resulted in the formation of the corresponding 3-thiomethylbenzofuran-2-ones.