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Base-Promoted Ring Expansion Reactions for the Construction of Cycloheptanones through C—C Bond Cleavage

  • Wei Wang ,
  • Xue Cui ,
  • Jianting Ma ,
  • Youbin Li ,
  • Xuesong Wang
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  • Key Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education, Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Tropical Herbs, Haikou Key Laboratory of Li Nationality Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 571199
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Received date: 2021-01-18

  Revised date: 2021-04-08

  Online published: 2021-04-25

Supported by

Hainan Provincial Natural Science Youth Foundation of China(820QN264); High-level Talents Fund of Basic and Applied Basic Research Program (Natural Science) of Hainan Province in 2019(2019RC214); Talent Introduction Start-up Fund of Hainan Medical University(XRC180009)

Abstract

An efficient ring expansion strategy has been developed for the construction of cycloheptanones through C—C bond cleavage. The reactions take place with easily accessible starting materials, good functional group tolerance, and mild reaction conditions in the presence of Cs2CO3 without any metal or oxidant reagent. The transition-metal free insertions of alkynes into carbon-carbon σ-bonds of acenaphthenone initialized through intramolecular nucleophilic addition/ring-opening to furnish multifarious cycloheptanones, which has the potential to be widely utilized in organic synthetic chemistry.

Cite this article

Wei Wang , Xue Cui , Jianting Ma , Youbin Li , Xuesong Wang . Base-Promoted Ring Expansion Reactions for the Construction of Cycloheptanones through C—C Bond Cleavage[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021 , 41(7) : 2715 -2722 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202101031

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