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SUBMITTER: Burroughs L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4581465 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20150729 36
An intramolecular Cannizzaro-type hydride transfer to an in situ prepared allene enables the synthesis of ortho-fused 4-substituted cycloocta-2,5-dien-1-ones with unprecedented technical ease for an eight-ring carboannulation. Various derivatives could be obtained from commercially available (hetero)aryl aldehydes, trimethylsilylacetylene, and simple propargyl chlorides in good yields. ...[more]