Triflic Acid-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions of Donor–Acceptor Cyclopropanes: Access to Alkyl 5-Arylfuran-2-carboxylates
摘要:
A direct synthetic strategy starting from alkyl 1-alkoxy-2-aroylcyclopropanecarboxylates was developed for the construction of alkyl 5-arylfuran-2-carboxylates. These donor acceptor cyclopropanes smoothly undergo a simple ring opening reaction or/and cycloisomerization reaction in the presence of acid at room temperature;, which greatly depends on the properties of the acid used in the experiment, Alkyl 5-arylfuran-2-carboxylates were afforded in high yields in triflic acid, whereas alkyl 2,5-dioxo-5-phenylpentanoate became the major product in other protic acids and Lewis acids.
Oxidative heterocoupling between two Grignardreagents RMgX and R′MgX is made possible by manganese catalysis with O2 as an oxidant. This procedure, development of which was based on mechanistic analysis of the corresponding homocoupling reaction, can be steered towards the heterocoupling product at the expense of the homocoupling products by judicious choice of the R and R′ groups (see examples).