Issue 17, 2011
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

N-Heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed cascade epoxide-opening and lactonization reaction for the synthesis of dihydropyrone derivatives†

Jing Qi,a   Xingang Xie,a   Jinmei He,a   Ling Zhang,a   Donghui Maa  and  Xuegong She*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China

b State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China
E-mail: shexg@lzu.edu.cn
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Abstract

N-Heterocyclic carbene was employed as an efficient organic catalyst to catalyze a cascade epoxide-opening and lactonization reaction. This organocatalytic process could transform various readily accessible γ-epoxy-α,β-enals into dihydropyrone derivatives in good to excellent yields.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1OB05854A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 May 2011
Accepted
24 Jun 2011
First published
24 Jun 2011

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011,9, 5948-5950

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N-Heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed cascade epoxide-opening and lactonization reaction for the synthesis of dihydropyrone derivatives

J. Qi, X. Xie, J. He, L. Zhang, D. Ma and X. She, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 5948 DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05854A

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