Synthesis and reactivity of enyne-and dienyne-tethered molybdenum-carbene complexes: precursors to polycyclic frameworks

DF Harvey, MF Brown

Index: Harvey, Daniel F.; Brown, Matthew F. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1990 , vol. 112, # 21 p. 7806 - 7807

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Abstract

Recently, studies from our group have demonstrated that the thermolysis of alkyne-tethered molybdenum carbene complexes in the presence of electron-poor olefins results in the formation of cyclopentenylcyclopropanes in good yield.'Work in our laboratories2 and elsewhere3 has shown that properly functionalized enynes will react with Fischer carbene complexes via a similar pathway to efficiently produce vinylcyclopropanes. Treatment of ...