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SUBMITTER: Afeke C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720882 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Afeke Cephas C Xie Youwei Y Floreancig Paul E PE
Organic letters 20190620 13
Ketones that are flanked by an allylic alcohol and an alkene isomerize to spirocyclic ethers in the presence of Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> through allylic alcohol transposition, oxocarbenium ion formation, and Prins cyclization. These processes provide significant increases in molecular complexity, with multiple stereocenters being set relative to a stereocenter in the substrate. Stereoselectivity arises from the initial reversible steps being more rapid than the final step, thereby allowing fo ...[more]