Heterocyclic Compounds
ChemInform Abstract: Gold-Catalyzed Tandem Intramolecular Heterocyclization/Petasis—Ferrier Rearrangement of 2-(Prop-2-ynyloxy)benzaldehydes as an Expedient Route to Benzo[b]oxepin-3(2H)-ones.
First published: 28 April 2011
Abstract
Uniquely, ring formation only proceeds efficiently in the presence of a gold catalyst.