The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Phase-transfer-catalyzed conversion of alkynes to lactones induced by manganese carbonyl complexes

CH Wang, H Alper

Index: Wang, Jin-Xian; Alper, Howard Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1986 , vol. 51, # 2 p. 273 - 275

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Abstract

A tentative mechanistic rationalization (Scheme I) for the observed benzoannelation involves the initial formation of equilibrating anions whose energy minimum is best represented by the sickle-shaped species 8. lS Formation of naphthol 11 may occur via