CONVENIENT TWO-STEP CONVERSION OF LACTONES INTO CYCLIC ETHERS
CONVENIENT TWO-STEP CONVERSION OF LACTONES INTO CYCLIC ETHERS
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内酯便捷地两步转化为环醚
DOI:
10.1021/jo9716082
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
S. Buchwald
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作者:
Marcus C. Hansen;X. Verdaguer;S. Buchwald
We recently developed a new method for the reduction of lactones that offers easy access to five-and sixmembered ring lactols using a titanocene diphenoxide (1a)/tetrabutylammonium fluoride/alumina mixture or titanocene difluoride (1b) as the catalyst; 1 polymethylhydrosiloxane (PMHS) was used as the stoichiometric reductant (Scheme 1). A variety of lactones were reduced to the corresponding lactols in good to excellent yields.During our studies of lactone hydrosilylation, we noted that one of the most general ways of transforming a lactone to the corresponding cyclic ether is through a twostep procedure involving initial reduction with DIBAL-H (forming the lactol), followed by treatment with Et3SiH/BF3 ‚OEt2. 2a Both of these reactions occurred at low temperatures (-78 C) under an inert atmosphere. This method has been applied, in nearly unaltered form, in many syntheses. 3 This silane reduction protocol has also been used to reduce lactols prepared via independent methods. 4