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Polycyclizations

Posted by naturalproductman on June 9, 2010

James Herndon and co-workers from New Mexico State University have published in Tetrahedron Letters on a coupling between an enyne-aldehyde and a Fischer carbene, which results in multiple cyclization events when the temperature is elevated.

fischer carbene

TL paper

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