An efficient furan synthesis using heterogeneous catalysis

SJ Hayes, DW Knight, MD Menzies, M O'Halloran…

Index: Hayes, Simon J.; Knight, David W.; Menzies, Melanie D.; O'Halloran, Mark; Tan, Wen-Fei Tetrahedron Letters, 2007 , vol. 48, # 43 p. 7709 - 7712

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Abstract

A wide variety of 3-alkyne-1, 2-diols have been found to undergo exceptionally clean 5-endo- dig cyclisations followed by dehydration at ambient temperature to give the corresponding furans in essentially quantitative yields when exposed to 10mol% of 10% w/w silver (I) nitrate absorbed on silica gel.