Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhang K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4915745 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20150831 35
A PPh3-mediated multicomponent reaction between o-phthalaldehydes, nucleophiles, and monosubstituted allenes furnishes functionalized non-C2-symmetric naphthalenes in synthetically useful yields. When the o-phthalaldehydes were reacted with 1,3-disubstituted allenes in the presence of PPh2Et, naphthalene derivatives were also obtained in up to quantitative yields. The mechanism of the latter transformation is straightforward: aldol addition followed by Wittig olefination and dehydration. The mec ...[more]