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Selective syntheses of Δα,β and Δβ,γ butenolides from allylic cyclopropenecarboxylates via tandem ring expansion/[3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangements
Xie, Xiaocong,Li, Yi,Fox, Joseph M.
, p. 1500 - 1503 (2013/07/05)
Allylic cyclopropenecarboxylates undergo ring expansion reactions to give 2-allyloxyfuran intermediates, which subsequently rearrange to Δβ,γ butenolides via a Claisen rearrangement or to the corresponding Δα,β butenolides via further Cope rearrangement. Also described are methods for chirality transfer in the rearrangement of nonracemic allylic esters.
