Addition of water to arylidenecyclopropanes: a highly efficient method for the preparation of gem-aryl disubstituted homoallylic alcohols

AI Siriwardana, I Nakamura, Y Yamamoto

Index: Siriwardana, Amal I.; Nakamura, Itaru; Yamamoto, Yoshinori Tetrahedron Letters, 2003 , vol. 44, # 24 p. 4547 - 4550

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Abstract

During the last decade, methylenecyclopropanes (MCPs) have become readily available and found application in organic synthesis as versatile building blocks. Their chemical reactivity is due to a high level of ring strain, although they are surprisingly stable and easy to handle. 7., and Recently, we reported the convenient synthesis of homoallylic halides from methylenecyclopropanes and hydrogen halides. 8 This result, in turn, prompted us to investigate a possibility of the ...