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Electrotelluration: A new approach to tri- and tetrasubstituted alkenes
Marino, Joseph P.,Nguyen, Hanh Nho
, p. 6291 - 6296 (2002)
A novel electrotelluration process is described in which a Michael addition of an alkyl or aryl tellurolate anion occurs onto an activated alkyne with subsequent trapping of a vinyl anion with electrophiles (aldehydes and ketones) other than a proton. This process provides an efficient regio-and stereospecific route to tri- and tetrasubstituted alkenes. Methodologically significant examples of this chemistry were studied in which aryl and alkyl tellurolate anions were added to ω-keto alkynyl esters in a Michael reaction, and the incipient vinyl anions were trapped intramolecularly by the internal aldehydes. The reactive centers were tethered by different lengths of alkyl chains to form highly functionalized five-, six-, seven-, and eight-membered rings in modest to good yields.
