Electrotelluration: A new approach to tri-and tetrasubstituted alkenes

JP Marino, HN Nguyen

Index: Marino, Joseph P.; Nguyen, Hanh Nho Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2002 , vol. 67, # 18 p. 6291 - 6296

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Citation Number: 48

Abstract

A novel electrotelluration process is described in which a Michael addition of an alkyl or aryl tellurolate anion occurs onto an activated alkyne with subsequent trapping of a vinyl anion with electrophiles (aldehydes and ketones) other than a proton. This process provides an efficient regio-and stereospecific route to tri-and tetrasubstituted alkenes. Methodologically significant examples of this chemistry were studied in which aryl and alkyl tellurolate ...