L. Alcaraz, Katherine Cox, A. Cridland
Feb 25, 2005
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Abstract
[reaction: see text] The treatment of chiral trans-disubstituted and trisubstituted 2,3-epoxy-1-bromides with an excess of dimethylsulfonium methylide 1 affords the corresponding 1,3-butadien-2-ylmethanols in good to excellent yields via a double one-carbon homologation.