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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 15, Pages 4748-4758Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201102830
Keywords
gold; homogeneous catalysis; Meyer-Schuster rearrangement; propargylic alcohols; silver
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E052789/1, EP/G040680/1]
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E052789/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/E052789/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A wide range of primary, secondary and tertiary propargylic alcohols undergo a MeyerSchuster rearrangement to give enones at room temperature in the presence of a gold(I) catalyst and small quantities of MeOH or 4-methoxyphenylboronic acid. The syntheses of the enone natural products isoegomaketone and daphenone were achieved using this reaction as the key step. The rearrangement of primary propargylic alcohols can readily be combined in a one-pot procedure with the addition of a nucleophile to the resulting terminal enone, to give beta-aryl, beta-alkoxy, beta-amino or beta-sulfido ketones. Propargylic alcohols bearing an adjacent electron-rich aryl group can also undergo silver-catalyzed substitution of the alcohol with oxygen, nitrogen and carbon nucleophiles. This latter reaction was initially observed with a batch of gold catalyst that was probably contaminated with small quantities of silver salt.
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