Abstract Strong nucleophiles are needed for inducing ring opening 3→ 4 since the pyrylium salt intermediates 3, formed from 5-X-substituted 5-aminopenta-2, 4-dienals 2 upon treatment with acid, are quite unreactive due to “aromatic” stabilization. However, this allows an easy access to a variety of 2-aminopyrylium salts 3 from “push–pull” enynes 1. X= OAc, F, Cl, Br, I, OPh.
[Campbell, Shirley E.; Comer, Murray C.; Derbyshire, Paul A.; Despinoy, Xavier L. M.; McNab, Hamish; Morrison, Roderick; Sommerville, Craig C.; Thornley, Craig Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1997 , # 15 p. 2195 - 2202]