Palladium (II)-catalysed acetalization of terminal olefins bearing electron-withdrawing substituents with 1, 3-and 1, 2-diols

T Hosokawa, T Ohta, SI Murahashi

Index: Hosokawa, Takahiro; Ohta, Toshiyuki; Murahashi, Shun-Ichi Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1983 , # 15 p. 848 - 849

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Abstract

Treatment of terminal olefins bearing electron-withdrawing groups with (R, R)-pentane-2, 4- diol (2) in the presence of PdCl2–CuCl–O2 in 1, 2-dimethoxyethane gives cyclic acetals such as (3) and (12b) via attack at the terminal carbon atom; the corresponding acetals are similarly formed from propane-1, 3-diol (5) and ethylene glycol (8).