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SUBMITTER: Schmidt TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7154628 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20200304 16
Herein, we describe the acid/Pd-tandem-catalyzed transformation of glycol derivatives into terminal formic esters. Mechanistic investigations show that the substrate undergoes rearrangement to an aldehyde under [1,2] hydrogen migration and cleavage of an oxygen-based leaving group. The leaving group is trapped as its formic ester, and the aldehyde is reduced and subsequently esterified to a formate. Whereas the rearrangement to the aldehyde is catalyzed by sulfonic acids, the reduction step requ ...[more]