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SUBMITTER: Tu W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2744605 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tu Wangyang W Floreancig Paul E PE
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20090101 25
Macrocyclic oxocarbenium ions can be formed from macrolactones that contain benzylic or allylic ether groups through oxidative carbon-hydrogen-bond activation mediated by 2,3-dichloro-4,5-dicyanoquinone (DDQ). The applicability of this efficient reaction to complex-molecule synthesis was demonstrated by its use in a brief formal synthesis of neopeltolide (see retrosynthetic scheme) to form the tetrahydropyrone ring. ...[more]