Rearrangements initiated by trimethylsilyl iodide: the facile ring opening of some cyclobutanone derivatives

R.D. Miller; D.R. McKean

doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)92826-0

Tetrahedron Letters

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01 Jan 1980

Rearrangements initiated by trimethylsilyl iodide: the facile ring opening of some cyclobutanone derivatives

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Abstract

The powerful electrophile trimethylsilyl iodide in the presence of certain catalysts rapidly and cleanly initiates the ring opening of a variety of cyclobutanone derivatives in a highly regioselective fashion yielding ultimately β-iodoketones. © 1980.

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