Chang Kuo-Jui, Rayabarapu Dinesh Kumar, Cheng Chien-Hong
Department of Chemistry, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, ROC.
Org Lett. 2003 Oct 16;5(21):3963-6. doi: 10.1021/ol035514s.
[reaction: see text] Treatment of various o-iodobenzaldehydes and o-iodophenyl ketones with alkynes in the presence of Co(dppe)I(2) and Zn powder in acetonitrile at 80 degrees C afforded the corresponding indenols in moderate to excellent yields with exceedingly high regioselectivity. For most unsymmetrical alkynes tested, the carbocyclization gave a single regioisomer.