Synthesis 2012; 44(18): 2919-2925
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1316752
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Synthesis of 2,4-Bis(aryloxy)-1,5-diarylpentane-1,5-diones by Base-Mediated Tandem Reaction

Ren-Jie Song
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
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Yan-Yun Liu
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
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Ji-Cheng Wu
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
b   Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education), Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, P. R. of China
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Yu Liu
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
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Guo-Bo Deng
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
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Xiao-Xu Qi
b   Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education), Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, P. R. of China
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Ye-Xiang Xie*
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
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Lu-Bin Gong
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
b   Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education), Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, P. R. of China
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Wei Liu
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
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Jin-Heng Li
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(731)88872531   Email: jhli@hnu.edu.cn   Email: xieyexiang@hnu.edu.cn
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Publication History

Received: 25 May 2012

Accepted after revision: 26 June 2012

Publication Date:
01 August 2012 (online)


Abstract

A new, practical, base-mediated method has been developed for the synthesis of 2,4-bis(aryloxy)-1,5-diarylpentane-1,5-diones by a tandem α-methylenation–Michael reaction through activation of two C–Cl bonds. This method permits the use of dichloromethane instead of dibromomethane as a source of one carbon atom for the α-methylenation reaction. The products are useful in syntheses of polysubstituted pyridines and methylenebisbenzofurans.

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  • 9 The configuration of products 2 was unambiguously assigned by means of an X-ray single-crystal diffraction analysis of product 2k. See the Supporting Information for detailed data.