Volume 19, Issue 9 pp. 914-916
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Stereoselective Synthesis of (E)-Cinnamates with Sm/HOAc

Xue-Sen Fan

Xue-Sen Fan

Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Xixi Campus, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310028, China

Department of Chemistry, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan 453002, China

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Yong-Min Zhang

Yong-Min Zhang

Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Xixi Campus, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310028, China

State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

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First published: 26 August 2010
Citations: 1

Abstract

The reductive desulfonylation of α-phenylsulfonylcinnamates promoted by Sm/HOAc led to the corresponding (E)-cinnamates stereoselectively in good yields under mild conditions.

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