Novel carbocationic rearrangements of 1-styrylpropargyl alcohols

• Christine Basmadjian,
• Fan Zhang and
• Laurent Désaubry

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1017–1022, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.114

• : carbocationic rearrangement; cyclopentenones; furans; propargyl alcohols; Introduction In the course of our medicinal program on a new class of anticancer agents [1][2][3], we developed a novel synthesis of cyclopentenones substituted by three different aryl groups (Scheme 1) [4]. This approach combines a