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Synfacts 2010(9): 1056-1056  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1257904
Metal-Mediated Synthesis
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Alkoxydienes via Copper-Promoted Couplings

Contributor(s): Paul Knochel, Thomas Kunz
D. J. Winternheimer, C. A. Merlic*
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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23 August 2010 (online)

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Significance

An oxidative copper-based coupling reaction enables the synthesis of various alkoxydienes with removable protecting groups from alcohols and vinyl boronate esters. These alkoxydienes are valuable substrates for Claisen rearrangements and Diels-Alder reactions.