Synthesis 2002(1): 0138-0145
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-19298
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Equatorial Preference in the GaCl3-Promoted Ethenylation of Cyclic Ketones

Mieko Arisawa, Chie Miyagawa, Masahiko Yamaguchi*
Department of Organic Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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Publication History

Received 29 May 2001
Publication Date:
04 August 2004 (online)

Abstract

Silyl enol ethers derived from substituted cyclohexanones are ethenylated with trimethylsilylethyne in the presence of GaCl3. Carbon-carbon bond formation was completed in less than 5 min at room temperature and protodegallation of the organogallium intermediate formed with 6 M sulfuric acid gave β-enones. The reactions exhibit a bias for the equatorial C-C bond formation, which contrasts the axial stereochemistry of enolate alkylation. The origin of this stereoselectivity is discussed.