A convenient and straightforward strategy for the synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted and 2,3,5-trisubstituted furans via a base-promoted domino reaction of β-keto compounds with vinyl dichlorides is described. This transition-metal-free approach proceeds under operationally simple reaction conditions featuring easily available starting materials, a broad substrate scope, and good functional group tolerance
Catalytic reductive [4 + 1]-cycloadditions of vinylidenes and dienes
作者:You-Yun Zhou、Christopher Uyeda
DOI:10.1126/science.aau0364
日期:2019.2.22
Five-membered rings for two nickels The Diels-Alder reaction is widely used to make six-membered rings by adding four-carbon dienes to two-carbon alkenes. It would seem straightforward to likewise access five-membered rings from dienes and one-carbon sources, or carbenes, but that does not tend to work. Instead, the carbene adds to just half of the diene to form a cyclopropane. Zhou and Uyeda now show