Mh. Filippini et J. Rodriguez, AN UNPRECEDENTED DBU-MEOH PROMOTED ONE-POT GAMMA-ARYLIDENATION OF CYCLIC BETA-KETOESTERS BY A DIRECTED GAMMA-ALDOL REACTION AND DEHYDRATIONSEQUENCE, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (1), 1995, pp. 33-34
Cyclic beta-ketoesters 1 undergo, in a one-pot process, an unprecedent
ed DBU-MeOH promoted selective gamma-arylidenation with aldehydes 2, b
y a directed gamma-aldol reaction and dehydration sequence, to afford
stereoselectively synthetically valuable cycloalkenones 3 in good yiel
ds.