ChemInform Abstract: Asymmetric Dehydrative Cyclization of ω-Hydroxy Allyl Alcohols Catalyzed by...

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ChemInform 2010, 41, issue 10 © 2010 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim www.cheminform.wiley-vch.de Benzopyran derivatives R 0350 DOI: 10.1002/chin.201010142 Asymmetric Dehydrative Cyclization of ω-Hydroxy Allyl Alcohols Catalyzed by Ruthenium Complexes. — Two novel axially chiral ligands are developed. Their Trost-type CpRu complexes induce the dehydrative intramolecular cyclization of ω-hy- droxy allyl alcohols with excellent reactivity and selectivity. Both aliphatic and aromat- ic alcohols can be used as nucleophiles at the ω-hydroxy end of the substrate. The chiral α-alkenyl cyclic ethers are potentially important intermediates for natural product syn- theses. — (TANAKA, S.; SEKI, T.; KITAMURA*, M.; Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 48 (2009) 47, 8948-8951; Dep. Chem., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya 464, Japan; Eng.) — Kieslich 10- 142

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Benzopyran derivativesR 0350 DOI: 10.1002/chin.201010142

Asymmetric Dehydrative Cyclization of ω-Hydroxy Allyl Alcohols Catalyzed by Ruthenium Complexes. — Two novel axially chiral ligands are developed. Their Trost-type CpRu complexes induce the dehydrative intramolecular cyclization of ω-hy-droxy allyl alcohols with excellent reactivity and selectivity. Both aliphatic and aromat-ic alcohols can be used as nucleophiles at the ω-hydroxy end of the substrate. The chiral α-alkenyl cyclic ethers are potentially important intermediates for natural product syn-theses. — (TANAKA, S.; SEKI, T.; KITAMURA*, M.; Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 48 (2009) 47, 8948-8951; Dep. Chem., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya 464, Japan; Eng.) — Kieslich

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