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Bronsted acid-catalyzed cycloisomerization of but-2-yne-1,4-diols with or without 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to tri- and tetrasubstituted furans
Mothe, Srinivasa Reddy,Lauw, Sherman Jun Liang,Kothandaraman, Prasath,Chan, Philip Wai Hong
, p. 6937 - 6947 (2012/10/07)
A Bronsted acid-catalyzed method to prepare tri- and tetrasubstituted furans efficiently from cycloisomerization of but-2-yne-1,4-diols with or without 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds is described. By taking advantage of the orthogonal modes of reactivity of the alcoholic substrate through slight modification of the reaction conditions, a divergence in product selectivity was observed. At room temperature, p-TsOH?H 2O-mediated tandem alkylation/cycloisomerization of the propargylic 1,4-diol with the β-dicarbonyl compound was found to selectively occur to provide the tetrasubstituted furan product. On the other hand, increasing the reaction temperature to 80 °C was discovered to result in preferential p-TsOH?H2O-catalyzed dehydrative rearrangement of the unsaturated alcohol and formation of the 2,3,5-trisubstituted furan adduct.