Gold vs. Platinum
Posted by naturalproductman on January 24, 2011
Keisuke Kato and co-workers at Toho University have published in Tetrahedron on some cascade reactions mediated by gold or platinum. Interestingly, depending on the metal, the reaction either undergoes a [3,3]-sigmatropic acyloxy rearrangement or a 1,2-acyloxy cyclization.
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