Volume 52, Issue 22 pp. 5799-5802
Communication

Copper-Catalyzed Arylative Meyer–Schuster Rearrangement of Propargylic Alcohols to Complex Enones Using Diaryliodonium Salts

Beatrice S. L. Collins

Beatrice S. L. Collins

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW (UK) http://www-gaunt.ch.cam.ac.uk/

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Dr. Marcos G. Suero

Dr. Marcos G. Suero

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW (UK) http://www-gaunt.ch.cam.ac.uk/

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Prof. Matthew J. Gaunt

Corresponding Author

Prof. Matthew J. Gaunt

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW (UK) http://www-gaunt.ch.cam.ac.uk/

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW (UK) http://www-gaunt.ch.cam.ac.uk/Search for more papers by this author
First published: 22 April 2013
Citations: 134

We are grateful to the University of Cambridge (for studentship, B.S.L.C), the Marie Curie Foundation (M.G.S.), and ERSRC and ERC (for fellowships to M.J.G). We also thank the EPSRC Mass Spectrometry Service at the University of Swansea and Dr. Anna Allen for assistance in the preparation of this manuscript.

Graphical Abstract

Free choice: A copper-catalyzed arylative Meyer–Schuster rearrangement is described. The reaction is compatible with a range of substituted propargylic alcohols and diaryliodonium salts and delivers complex trisubstituted enone products selectively as the E isomers.

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