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Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardees - Where are they now? A general one-step synthesis of alkynes from enolisable carbonyl compounds
Lyapkalo, Ilya M.,Vogel, Michael A. K.,Boltukhina, Ekaterina V.,Vav?ík, Ji?í
scheme or table, p. 558 - 561 (2009/07/09)
Terminal and internal acetylenes were obtained in good to excellent isolated yields from carbonyl compounds by converting the carbonyl functionality into the enol nonaflate intermediate followed by elimination to give the C-C triple bond. The one-pot transformations were uniformly induced by phosphazene bases combined with mildly electrophilic nonafluorobutane-1-sulfonyl fluoride. The method is the most general among those reported to date as it applies to both acyclic ketones and aldehydes. Only moderate kinetic regioselectivity in favour of alk-1-yne achieved from methyl n-alkyl ketone represents a limitation of the method. In all the other instances, individual acetylenic products were obtained. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart.
Rubrenolide, total synthesis and revision of its reported stereochemical structure
Thijs,Zwanenburg
, p. 5237 - 5252 (2007/10/03)
In this paper the synthesis of the natural product rubrenolide is presented. Due to an error in the original proposed stereochemical structure of rubrenolide, the synthesis was not straightforward. Application of the photo-induced rearrangement of an appropriate epoxy diazomethyl ketone gave access to the precursor lactone with an ee of 91%. Coupling of this lactone with (4S)-2,2-dimethyl-[1,3]-dioxolane-4-carbaldehyde gave, after some additional steps, the final product that was identical with an authentic sample of the natural product.
