Lewis base effects in the Baylis-Hillman reaction of arenecarbaldehydes and N-arylidene-4-methylbenzenesulfonamides with α,β-unsaturated cyclic ketones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/1099-0690(200211)2002:21<3666::AID-EJOC3666>3.0.CO;2-9

In investigations into the Baylis-Hillman reaction between arenecarbaldehydes and 2-cyclohexen-1-one or 2-cyclopenten-1-one, we found that the reaction is very complicated, because the Lewis bases, solvents, the substrates, and the ring-size of the α,β-un