“…Enones such as arylones and ynones, in which the keto functionality is attached to aromatic or alkyne moieties, are abundant in several bioactive natural products, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics . These moieties also offer opportunities for further synthetic modifications. , Based on our experience in glycal chemistry, herein, we explore carbonylation using 2-iodoglycals with different coupling partners such as phenyl boronic acids and acetylene for the first synthesis of sugar-based arylones and ynones (Scheme ). Once arylones were formed, we investigated their behavior toward Lewis acid in the absence or presence of external nucleophiles for the synthesis of C-2-substituted 1,2,3-trideoxy sugars, natural product scaffolds, and 3,5-disubstituted furan derivatives containing a chiral side chain.…”