Biaolin Yin, Guohui Zeng, Congbi Cai
Jan 5, 2012
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Organic letters
Abstract
A facile and atom-economic method for the synthesis of 3a,6a-dihydro-furo[2,3-b]furan derivatives and polysubstituted furans starting from furylcarbionls has been developed. This protocol involved a domino Claisen rearrangement/dearomatizing electrocyclic ring-closure/aromatizing electrocyclic ring-opening sequence.