T. Masquelin et D. Obrecht, A FACILE PREPARATION OF 2-SUBSTITUTED AND 5-SUBSTITUTED 3-BROMOTHIOPHENES, Tetrahedron letters, 35(50), 1994, pp. 9387-9390
Acetylenic ketones of type 4 and acetylenic acetals of type 6 (Scheme
1) are excellent cyclization precursors for the acid-catalyzed synthes
is of various heterocycles. Using this methodology, 5- and 2-substitut
ed 3-bromothiophenes of types 7 and 8 have been prepared in good to ex
cellent yields.