Tetrahedron letters

Conversion of α acetylenic alcohols into αβ unsaturated aldehydes

M Julia, C Lefebvre

Index: Julia, Marc; Lefebvre, Christian Tetrahedron Letters, 1984 , vol. 25, # 2 p. 189 - 192

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Abstract

Abstract Very mild conditions have been found for the efficient regioselective addition of phenylthiol to ethynyl carbinols. A biphasic aqueous acid hydrolysis then leads to α, β- unsaturated aldehydes. The Meyer-Schuster rearrangement is thus brought about in two steps.