Issue 18, 2017
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Chemical Communications

Gold-catalyzed ring-expansion through acyl migration to afford furan-fused polycyclic compounds†

Changyuan Zhang,a   Huanfeng Jiang ORCID logo a  and  Shifa Zhu ORCID logo *ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P. R. China
E-mail: zhusf@scut.edu.cn

b State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China

Abstract

A gold-catalyzed ring-expansion reaction of alkynones to access furan-fused polycyclic compounds is reported. Mechanistic studies revealed that the reaction might occur through a tandem 1,2-acyl migration/Friedel–Crafts reaction.

Graphical abstract: Gold-catalyzed ring-expansion through acyl migration to afford furan-fused polycyclic compounds

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC00218A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Jan 2017
Accepted
03 Feb 2017
First published
07 Feb 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 2677-2680

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Gold-catalyzed ring-expansion through acyl migration to afford furan-fused polycyclic compounds

C. Zhang, H. Jiang and S. Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 2677 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC00218A

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