Alcohol Substitution and Dehydrogenation of Selenium Compounds: A Convenient Preparation of Trisubstituted Furans from allyl-substituted 1,3-dicarbonyls

Abstract

Trisubstituted furans have been synthesised efficiently by an alcohol substitution and dehydrogenation reaction of selenocyclic enol ethers which were prepared by organoselenium-induced regioselective electrophilic intramolecular cyclisation of allyl-substituted 1,3-dicarbonyls.