Florian T Schevenels, B. Tinant, J. Declercq
Mar 25, 2013
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Abstract
Highly functionalised benzofurans have been prepared from ortho-hydroxyphenones and 1,1-dichloroethylene. The key intermediate, a chloromethylene furan, smoothly rearranged into the corresponding benzofuran carbaldehyde under acidic conditions. Some mechanistic investigations have been performed and several biologically active benzofurans have been synthesised.