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SUBMITTER: Moura-Letts G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2535931 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moura-Letts Gustavo G Curran Dennis P DP
Organic letters 20070101 1
[reaction: see text] Cross metathesis of terminal alkenes with methyl (2Z,4E)-hexadienoate and related dienyl esters provides substituted (2Z,4E)-dienyl esters in good yields. Small-scale reactions are effectively promoted by the standard second-generation Grubbs-Hoveyda catalyst (GH-II), while a new fluorous GH-II catalyst is used for separation and recovery in gram-scale reactions. The transformation is featured in a rapid synthesis of the bottom fragments of the potent anticancer agents (-)-d ...[more]