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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 43, 2013 - Issue 21
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Original Articles

Regiospecific Synthesis of Tetra-Substituted Furans

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Pages 2898-2905 | Received 24 Oct 2012, Published online: 25 Jul 2013
 

Abstract

α,β-Unsaturated acetylenic γ-hydroxyketones have been shown to react with ethyl acetoacetate in a Michael-addition fashion and subsequently undergo cyclization followed by dehydration to give substituted furans with a predictable regiospecificity. The yields were good to excellent. A mechanism for the transformation is proposed, and this mechanism explains why furan formation does not take place when the same unsaturated ketones are treated with α-methylated acetoacetate and diethyl malonate.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Financial support (to L. K. S.) from the Research Council of Norway, through the Research Programme for Catalysis and Synthetic Organic Chemistry (KOSK), and from the Munin Foundation is acknowledged with gratitude. Thanks are also due to the Norwegian Centre for international studies (to I. R. and M. S.) and the Erasmus Programme for scholarships (to F. L.) and to Kazan State Technological University, Kazan, Russia (to I. R.) for financial support. Recording of mass spectra by Terje Lygre and Egil Nodland and, more lately, Bjarte Holmelid, all at the University of Bergen is highly appreciated.

Notes

a EtMgBr as base.

b n-BuLi as base.

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