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SUBMITTER: Roselli CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5134929 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic & biomolecular chemistry 20161101 47
A diastereoselective, gold-catalyzed cascading cycloisomerization of alkylidene cyclopropane bearing 1,5-enynes that terminates in a cyclo-addition of aldehydes has been developed. This diastereoselective reaction provides convergent access to novel polycyclic molecular structures (18 examples), and tolerates a diverse scope of aldehydes. Mechanistic studies reveal that the catalytic cycle rests at a digold off-cycle intermediate, one of which was isolated. ...[more]