Rearrangements of oxocyclopropanecarboxylate esters to vinyl ethers. Disparate behavior of transition-metal catalysts

MP Doyle, D Van Leusen

Index: Doyle, Michael P.; Leusen, Daan van Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1982 , vol. 47, # 27 p. 5326 - 5339

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Abstract

Results Catalyst Effectiveness. Ethyl 2-methoxy-2-phenylcyclopropanecarboxylate (1) undergoes structural rearrangement to ethyl 4-methoxy-4-phenyl-3-butenoate (la) in the presence of catalytic amounts of a variety of transition-metal compounds (eq 1). In the absence of these