Synfacts 2011(2): 0163-0163  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1259344
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ˙ New York

Stereoselective Iodocarbocyclization

Contributor(s): Mark Lautens, David A. Candito
A. Pradal, A. Nasr, P. Y. Toullec*, V. Michelet*
Chimie ParisTech, France
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Publication History

Publication Date:
19 January 2011 (online)

Significance

The authors report a diastereo­selective iodocarbocyclization of 1,5-enynes to provide decorated cyclopentenes. With 1,5-enynes the 6-endo mode of cyclization has been previously observed and is more common; however, the authors have reversed this preference by judicious choice of substituents on the alkene moiety.