Abstract
Disclosed herein an overall methodology constitutes an equivalent to the long sought after enantioselective intramolecular oxa-Michael (IOM) reaction of carboxylic acids. An organocatalyzed IOM reaction of in situ formed peroxy hemiacetals followed by a Kornblum DeLaMare type rearrangement cascade provides a broad class of chiral lactones in good yields and with excellent enatioselectvities. Remarkably, the pure chiral lactones are obtained without any silica gel column chromatography, and in many cases, the enantioselectivity is further increased by a simple hexane wash of the isolated solid products.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 5220-5223 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Organic Letters |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 20 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 21 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work has been supported by CSIR, New Delhi, and IISER Bhopal. B.P. thanks CSIR, New Delhi, and S.M. thanks UGC, New Delhi, India, for fellowships.
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© 2016 American Chemical Society.