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DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-947331
Gold- and Copper-Catalyzed [4+2] Benzannulations between Enynal or Enynone Units and 2π-Systems
Publication History
Publication Date:
04 July 2006 (online)

Abstract
Gold-catalyzed formal [4+2] benzannulation between enynal or enynone units, including ortho-alkynyl(oxo)benzenes, and 2π-systems, such as alkynes and carbonyl compounds (enol forms), produces aromatic ketones in good to high yields. By simply changing the catalyst from gold to copper-Brønsted acid system, decarbonylated aromatic compounds can be prepared in the reactions using alkynes as the 2π-system. An efficient synthetic approach to angucyclinone antibiotics, (+)-ochromycinone and (+)-rubiginone B2, is developed by applying the present benzannulation to an intramolecular version. The reaction proceeds most probably through the formation of the benzo[c]pyrylium ate complex via the intramolecular nucleophilic addition of the carbonyl oxygen atom to the alkyne part of enynal or enynone units, which is induced by carbophilic gold and copper catalysts.
1 Introduction
2 Gold-Catalyzed Reaction of Enynal or Enynone Units with Acetylenic Compounds
3 Copper-Catalyzed Reaction of Enynal Units with Acetylenic Compounds
4 Copper-Catalyzed Reaction of Enynal or Enynone Units with Alkenes
5 Gold-Catalyzed Reaction of Enynal Units with Carbonyl Compounds
6 Gold- and Copper-Catalyzed Intramolecular Benzannulation and Cycloaddition
7 Gold-Catalyzed Intramolecular Benzannulation as a Synthetic Tool for Angucyclinone Antibiotics
8 Summary
Key words
gold catalysis - copper catalysis - carbophilic Lewis acids - [4+2] benzannulation - benzo[c]pyrylium ate complexes - (+)-ochromycinone
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