α-Acetoxyarone synthesis via iodine-catalyzed and tert-butyl hydroperoxide-mediateded self-intermolecular oxidative coupling of aryl ketones

• Liquan Tan,
• Cui Chen and
• Weibing Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1079–1084, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.107

• H2O in the TBHP solvent. Keywords: aryl ketones; iodine; self-intermolecular oxidative coupling; self-sequential assembly; TBHP; Introduction In recent years, α-acetoxyaryl ketones have attracted considerable interest because this structural motif is found in a variety of biologically active natural