Buzas Andrea, Istrate Florin, Gagosz Fabien
Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique, UMR 7652 CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.
Org Lett. 2006 Apr 27;8(9):1957-9. doi: 10.1021/ol0606839.
[reaction: see text] A study concerning the gold(I)-catalyzed rearrangement of butynediol monobenzoates into functionalized 2,5-dihydrofurans is described. The mild reaction conditions employed allow the efficient and rapid stereoselective synthesis of a variety of 2,5-dihydrofurans via a sequence of two gold(I)-catalyzed isomerization steps.