121409-90-3Relevant articles and documents
REACTION OF DIANIONS DERIVED FROM β-KETOESTERS WITH EPOXIDES - UTILITY IN THE PREPARATION OF SYNTHETICALLY USEFUL TETRAHYDROFURANS.
Lygo, Barry,O'connor, Norval,Wilson, Peter R.
, p. 6881 - 6888 (1988)
Presented here are several examples which demonstrate that ether substituents α- or β- to an epoxide ring can be tolerated in the ring-opening reaction with β-keto ester dianions.Subsequent acid-promoted cyclisation of the γ-hydroxy β-ketoesters then leads to synthetically useful tetrahydrofurans, as demonstrated by application of this approach to the preparation of (+/-)-methyl nonactate and (+/-)-methyl 8-epi-nonactate.