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SUBMITTER: Lima SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7161055 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS omega 20200401 14
We report a direct, straightforward, and regioselective hydration of 1,4-enynes designed from Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts. Under smooth conditions and short reaction times, gold-catalyzed hydration of internal alkynes provides synthetically useful ketones as single regioisomers in yields higher than 90%. The synthetic usefulness of this protocol was demonstrated by the conversion of selected ketones into biologically valuable α-alkylidene-γ-lactones upon reduction with sodium borohydride. In t ...[more]