Gagosz Fabien
Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.
Org Lett. 2005 Sep 15;7(19):4129-32. doi: 10.1021/ol051397k.
[reaction: see text] The gold(I) isomerization of diversely substituted 3-hydroxylated enynes has led to the discovery of three new unreported skeletal rearrangements furnishing structures such as alkylidene-cyclopentenes, cyclohexadienes or alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes under very mild conditions.