Issue 1, 2011
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Catalysis Science & Technology

Gold(i)-catalyzed synthesis of furans and pyrrolesviaalkyne hydration†

Pierrick Nun,a   Stéphanie Dupuy,a   Sylvain Gaillard,ab   Albert Poater,c   Luigi Cavallod  and  Steven P. Nolan*a  

* Corresponding authors

a EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, UK
E-mail: snolan@st-andrews.ac.uk

b Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Thio-organique, UMR 6507, ENSICAEN, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, 14050 Caen, France

c Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), H2O Building, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, Emili Grahit 101, E-17003 Girona, Spain

d Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, Via ponte don Melillo, Fisciano, Italy

Abstract

Furans and pyrroles were prepared via the gold(I)-catalyzed alkyne hydration of diynes. The use of [Au(IPr)OH] as precatalyst in a silver-free protocol permits low catalyst loadings and in situ generation of the active cationic gold species. A detailed computational study confirmed the experimental results and supports the proposed mechanism.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CY00055H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Nov 2010
Accepted
15 Dec 2010
First published
31 Jan 2011

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011,1, 58-61

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Gold(I)-catalyzed synthesis of furans and pyrroles via alkyne hydration

P. Nun, S. Dupuy, S. Gaillard, A. Poater, L. Cavallo and S. P. Nolan, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 58 DOI: 10.1039/C0CY00055H

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