Y. Landais et al., STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF SUBSTITUTED TETRAHYDROFURANS VIA SELENOETHERIFICATION OF 2-SILYL-3-ALKENOLS - A STUDY OF ALLYLIC STEREOCONTROL, Tetrahedron letters, 36(17), 1995, pp. 2987-2990
5-endo-trig selenoetherifications of substituted 2-silyl-3-alkenols ga
ve tri- or tetrasubstituted 2,4-cis tetrahydrofurans in moderate to go
od yields with excellent diastereoselectivities. Opposite stereoselect
ivities were found with an analogous allylic diol. A transition state
model has been proposed to rationalize this stereochemical outcome.