Kt. Kang et al., SYNTHESIS OF 2-SUBSTITUTED-4-TRIMETHYLSILYLFURANS USING 2,3-BIS(TRIMETHYLSILYL)PROPENE, Synthetic communications, 24(20), 1994, pp. 2915-2922
2-Substituted-4-trimethylsilylfurans were prepared by treatment of the
epoxycarbonyl compounds 3 with LDA or t-BuLi. 3a-j were obtained from
the Lewis acid mediated reaction of 2,3-bis(trimethylsilyl)propene wi
th acid chlorides and followed by epoxidation with MCPBA.