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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

 

Journal Publications

 

Gold(I) Complexes of KITPHOS Monophosphines: Efficient Cycloisomerisation Catalysts

A. Stephen K. Hashmi, Annette Loos, Anna Littmann, Ingo Braun, Julian Knight, Simon Doherty, and Frank Rominger, Adv. Synth. Catal., 2009, 351, 576.

 

Abstract:

Gold(I)-triflimide (AuNTf2)complexes of H-KITPHOS and o-MeO-KITPHOS have been prepared and shown to be efficient catalysts for a range of intramolecular cyclisations to afford phenols, acylindenes, alkylidene oxazoles, tetrahydropyrans and lactones, in the majority of cases these catalysts are superior to those previously reported.