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General Synthetic Approach to Functionalized Dihydrooxepines

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posted on 2013-04-19, 00:00 authored by K. C. Nicolaou, Ruocheng Yu, Lei Shi, Quan Cai, Min Lu, Philipp Heretsch
A three-step sequence to access functionalized 4,5-dihydrooxepines from cyclohexenones has been developed. This approach features a regioselective Baeyer–Villiger oxidation and subsequent functionalization via the corresponding enol phosphate intermediate.

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