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Intercepting the Gold-Catalysed Meyer-Schuster Rearrangement by Controlled Protodemetallation: A Regioselective Hydration of Propargylic Alcohols
Pennell, Matthew N.,Kyle, Michael P.,Gibson, Samantha M.,Male, Louise,Turner, Peter G.,Grainger, Richard S.,Sheppard, Tom D.
, p. 1519 - 1525 (2016)
The regioselective gold-catalysed hydration of propargylic alcohols to β-hydroxy ketones can be achieved by diverting the gold-catalysed Meyer-Schuster rearrangement through the addition of a protic additive with a pKa of 7-9 such as p-nitrophe
