Krishna Palakodety Radha, Kannan V, Sharma G V M
D-206/B, Discovery Laboratory, Organic Chemistry Division-III, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad-500 007, India.
J Org Chem. 2004 Sep 17;69(19):6467-9. doi: 10.1021/jo049511k.
The first diastereoselective intramolecular Baylis-Hillman reaction of chiral substrates is reported wherein both aldehyde and activated olefin coexist as substituents to afford alpha-methylene-beta-hydroxylactones in good yields exclusively as single isomers under the standard base-catalyzed reaction conditions in CH(2)Cl(2). Formation of alkoxylactones by an in situ derivatization of adducts was also observed.