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A facile tetrahydrothiophene-catalyzed ylide route to vinyloxiranes

  • Kai Li
  • , Xian Ming Deng
  • , Yong Tang

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Abstract

Access to vinyloxiranes using aldehydes and allylic bromides in the presence of 1-5 mol% tetrahydrothiophene is reported. Both aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes work well in this reaction and the catalyst loading could be reduced as low as 0.5 mol%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2074-2075
Number of pages2
JournalChemical Communications
Volume3
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes

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