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Organolanthanide-catalyzed cyclization/boration of 1,5- and 1,6-Dienes
1Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA. gmolandr@sas.upenn.edu
Organic Letters
|June 29, 2001
Abstract:
[figure: see text] 1,5- and 1,6-Dienes undergo a cyclization/boration reaction in the presence of a catalytic amount of Cp*2Sm.THF. The resulting organoboranes can be oxidized to the corresponding primary cyclic alcohols using standard conditions.