posted on 2011-10-21, 00:00authored bySamuel Inack Ngi, Vincent Guilloteau, Mohamed Abarbri, Jérôme Thibonnet
In the presence of copper(I) iodide, heteroaromatic β-iodo-α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid systems opposed to terminal alkyne afford selectively 6-endo-dig cyclization products via a tandem coupling oxacyclization reaction.