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Oxidative gold catalysis meets photochemistry - Synthesis of benzo[a]fluorenones from diynes
N?sel, Pascal,Moghimi, Setareh,Hendrich, Christoph,Haupt, Marten,Rudolph, Matthias,Rominger, Frank,Hashmia, A. Stephen K.
, p. 3755 - 3760 (2015/01/09)
Diynes bearing one terminal and one triarylmethylsubstituted alkyne were converted into complex benzofluorenone derivatives via a one-pot process involving a gold-catalyzed step followed by a photocyclization/oxidation. In the first step an Noxide was used to position-selectively generate an a-oxo carbenoid at the terminal alkyne which after a regioselective 1,6-carbene transfer along the tethered tritylalkyne and a subsequent aryl 1,2-shift furnished tetraphenylethylene-like derivatives. These intermediates were successfully transformed to fluorenones via oxidative photocyclization.
