Titanium tetrachloride promoted reaction of silyl ketene acetals with epoxides: a new method for the synthesis of gamma-butanolides
- Maslak, Veselin
- Matović, Radomir
- Saičić, Radomir N.
Publication date
January 2002
DOI Publisher
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford Journal
issn:0040-4039Abstract
A new method for the synthesis of gamma-butanolides is described. The titanium tetrachloride promoted reaction of silyl ketene acetals with epoxides, followed by acidic work-up, affords the corresponding butyrolactones in 44-83%, yield. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
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