Intramolecular Oxy-Michael
Posted by naturalproductman on October 29, 2009
Jayanta Ray and co-workers at IIT Kharagpur have recently published in Tetrahedron Letters on synthesis of polycyclic furans and tetrahydrofurans via an intramolecular oxy-Michael addition using either a reductant or a base to effect the transformation. I think I’ve seen similar substrates but they underwent a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction.
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