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SUBMITTER: Jung ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2784895 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jung Michael E ME Perez Felix F
Organic letters 20090501 10
Mukaiyama Michael addition of silyl enol ethers 13 to the 1,2-quinone-4-carboxylate 6 (formed in situ by oxidation of the catechol ester 8) afforded the 2-subsituted 7-hydroxybenzofuran-4-carboxylates 14 in fair to good yields. Alkyl and aryl systems work well, but highly electron-rich silyl enol ethers could not be used because of competing oxidation. ...[more]