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Preparation of Lactones via Tricarbonyliron-Lactone Complexes
Annis, Gary D.,Ley, Steven V.,Self, Christopher R.,Sivaramakrishnan, Ramamoorthy
, p. 270 - 277 (2007/10/02)
A number of tricarbonyliron-lactone complexes have been prepared from vinyl oxirans by treatment with pentacarbonyliron.In certain cases two ν3-allyl complexes were isolated from a single vinyl oxiran.Oxidation of the complexes by cerium (IV) ammonium nitrate in acetonitrile leads predominantly to β-lactones.The stereochemical integrity of the initial complexes is reflected in the formation of the oxidation products.Reduction of these products with lithium aluminium hydride gave the expected diols.
