Homologation of furfural and derivatives to furylacetaldehydes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397919108021571

The homologation of furfural 1a and methyl 3-(5-formyl-2-furyl) propenoate 1b or ethyl 3-(5-formyl-2-furyl) propenoate 1c to the corresponding furylacetaldehydes was carried out in two stages: i) preparation of the furan epoxides from 1a, 1b, 1c. ii) cleavage and rearrangement of the epoxides on sepiolite. Sepiolite is a convenient catalyst for this last stage involving substrates as labile as the furan epoxides.

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Homologation of Furfural
and Deriuatives to
Furylacetaldehydes
C. Brochet a , J. L. Syssa a , Z. Mouloungui a , M.
Delmas a & A. Gaset a
a Laboratoire de Chimie des Agroressources ,
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de
Toulouse , INPT, 118, route de Narbonne, 31077,
TOULOUSE Cédex, FRANCE
Published online: 24 Sep 2006.
To cite this article: C. Brochet , J. L. Syssa , Z. Mouloungui , M. Delmas & A.
Gaset (1991) Homologation of Furfural and Deriuatives to Furylacetaldehydes,
Synthetic Communications: An International Journal for Rapid Communication of
Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 21:17, 1735-1741, DOI: 10.1080/00397919108021571
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