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SUBMITTER: Tollefson EJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4210078 | biostudies-other | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20141013 42
The stereospecific ring-opening of O-heterocycles to provide acyclic alcohols and carboxylic acids with controlled formation of a new C-C bond is reported. These reactions provide new methods for synthesis of acyclic polyketide analogs with complex stereochemical arrays. Stereoselective synthesis of the cyclic template is utilized to control relative configuration; subsequent stereospecific nickel-catalyzed ring-opening affords the acyclic product. Aryl-substituted tetrahydrofurans and tetrahydr ...[more]