Synthetic application of furan-3-one and thiophen-3-one

ORGN 293

Kyungsoo Oh and Jeffrey D Winkler. Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

The chemistry of furan-3-one and thiophen-3-one is relatively unexplored.  We describe herein an efficient approach to the preparation of these heterocycles and their applications in both aldol and Diels-Alder reactions.

 

 

New Reactions and Methodology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Pennsylvania Convention Center -- 201A, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 228th ACS National Meeting, in Philadelphia, PA, August 22-26, 2004