Zhaofeng Wang, Li Li, Yong Huang
Aug 20, 2014
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
Abstract
We describe a direct synthesis of various ynones from readily available aldehydes and hypervalent alkynyl iodides. In this method, a gold catalyst and a secondary amine work synergistically to produce the trisubstituted allenyl aldehyde, which can be converted to the desired ynone through an in situ C-C bond oxidative cleavage using molecular oxygen.