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Efficient synthesis of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophenes (EDOT) by Mitsunobu reaction
Dolores Caras-Quintero1, Peter Bäuerle
1Department of Organic Chemistry II (Organic Materials and Combinatorial Chemistry), University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89081, Ulm, Germany.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 4, 2003
Abstract:
Using the Mitsunobu reaction as a key step, a general and efficient method for the synthesis of EDOT monomers has been developed. Novel substituted EDOTs and the first chiral derivatives were generated in high yields.