Efficient synthesis of biindenylidene derivatives via a domino-Heck-type double cyclization of diaryldienynes

S M Abdur Rahman; Motohiro Sonoda; Kayo Itahashi; Yoshito Tobe

doi:10.1021/ol035127i

Efficient synthesis of biindenylidene derivatives via a domino-Heck-type double cyclization of diaryldienynes

Org Lett. 2003 Sep 18;5(19):3411-4. doi: 10.1021/ol035127i.

Authors

S M Abdur Rahman¹, Motohiro Sonoda, Kayo Itahashi, Yoshito Tobe

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Osaka University, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan.

PMID: 12967287
DOI: 10.1021/ol035127i

Abstract

[reaction: see text] Synthesis of aromatic ring substituted (E)-1,1'-biindenylidene derivatives was achieved by a domino-Heck type double cyclization of (Z,Z)-1,6-diaryl-1,5-hexadien-3-ynes.