Synfacts 2011(9): 1007-1007  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1260883
Metal-Mediated Synthesis
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Two-Component Coupling to Form Benzocycloheptanones

Contributor(s): Paul Knochel, Andreas K. Steib
R. Kumar Patti, K. V. Waynant, J. W. Herndon*
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
19 August 2011 (online)

Significance

A new coupling approach to yield naphthalene-fused cycloheptanones is described. Pentenyl carbene complexes and 2-alkynylbenzoyl derivatives afford the desired products in a single step in a net [5+6] cycloaddition process.