| Literature DB >> 31361145 |
Michael F McLaughlin1, Elisabetta Massolo1, Thomas A Cope1, Jeffrey S Johnson1.
Abstract
Phenols are attractive starting materials for the preparation of highly substituted cyclohexane rings via dearomative processes. Herein we report an efficient preparation of dearomatized 1-oxaspiro[2.5]octa-4,7-dien-6-ones (para-spiroepoxydienones) via the nucleophilic epoxidation of in situ generated para-quinone methides from 4-(hydroxymethyl)phenols using aqueous H2O2. The developed protocol bypasses the need for stoichiometric bismuth reagents or diazomethane, which are frequently deployed for p-spiroepoxydienone preparation. The p-spiroepoxydienones are further elaborated in numerous downstream complexity-building transformations.Entities:
Year: 2019 PMID: 31361145 PMCID: PMC6717626 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02372
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005