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Sc(OTf)3‑Catalyzed Chemodivergent Annulations of γ‑Butyrolactone-Fused Cyclopropanes with Anthranils

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posted on 2019-12-13, 15:46 authored by Xingyu Zhang, Manli Feng, Gaosheng Yang, Zhuo Chai
The Lewis acid-catalyzed annulations between anthranils and γ-butyrolactone-fused donor–acceptor cyclopropanes have been developed. Depending on the anthranils used, such annulations proceeded in a chemodivergent way to produce either bridged cyclic products via [4 + 3] annulation or γ-butyrolactone-fused tetrahydroquinoline products via a cascade process in moderate to high yields. A probable mechanism for the two reaction pathways has been proposed. The reaction could be performed on a gram-scale, and the products could be elaborated to other useful cyclic structures bearing multiple contiguous stereogenic centers.

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