ChemInform Abstract: The Cyanide-Catalyzed Isomerization of Enol Esters Derived from Cyclic 1,3-Diketones.
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In connection with synthetic studies on the antibiotic pyoluteorin the title reaction is investigated. Thus, acylation of the diketone (I) with aliphatic acyl chlorides, e.g. (II), gives an intermediate O- acylation product which rearranges via the formation of acyl cyanides to the C-acylation product (III). However, application of the sequence to acid chloride (IV) takes another course. The desired C-acylation product (VIII) is directly obtained from (I) and the acyl cyanide (VII) . The aromatization of (VIII) to the corresponding resorcinol, a precursor of pyoluteorin, is not achieved (some yields not given).