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Gold‐Catalyzed Double Cycloisomerization of 1‐Ene‐4,10‐diynyl Esters to Bicyclo[6.3.0]undeca‐2,4,9‐trienyl Esters
Author(s) -
Mathiew Mitch,
Tan Javey Khiapeng,
Chan Philip Wai Hong
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.201809376
Subject(s) - cycloisomerization , enyne , bicyclic molecule , chemistry , cyclopropene , stereochemistry , hydride , ene reaction , catalysis , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry , hydrogen
A synthetic method to prepare bicyclo[6.3.0]undeca‐2,4,9,trienyl esters efficiently from gold(I)‐catalyzed Rautenstrauch rearrangement/1,5‐hydride shift/8‐ endo ‐ dig cyclization of 1‐ene‐4,10‐diynyl esters is described. The suggested double cycloisomerization mechanism delineates the first example of an unactivated all‐carbon tethered 1,7‐enyne, either preformed or formed in situ, which undergoes an 8‐ endo ‐ dig cyclization pathway to give a cyclooctane motif. It also offers an extremely rare synthetic method in organic chemistry that can sequentially assemble both ring components of the bicyclic motif from an acyclic precursor in one step.