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SUBMITTER: Dange NS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6054113 | biostudies-other | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Dange Nitin S NS Stepherson Jacob R JR Ayala Caitlan E CE Fronczek Frank R FR Kartika Rendy R
Chemical science 20150722 11
We describe a novel reactivity of benzylic-stabilized oxyallyl cations towards regioselective construction of carbon quaternary centers. These synthetically useful intermediates were readily generated upon ionization of aryl substituted α-hydroxy methylenol ethers with catalytic, mild Brønsted acid. The emerging unsymmetrical oxyallyl cations were then directly captured by indoles and other nucleophiles with exquisite control of regioselectivity, predictably at the electrophilic carbon bearing t ...[more]