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Chem Commun (Camb)
; 48(2): 233-5, 2012 Jan 07.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22085874
RESUMO
Unsaturated spirocyclic substrates bearing two alkenyl chains underwent ruthenium-mediated ring-rearrangement metathesis through relaying cyclohexene and cycloheptene moieties to give angularly fused tricyclics. In some instances where two products were expected, high degrees of selectivity were observed. In one instance the structural parameter leading to selectivity was very subtle; in others the transformation favoured the formation of products with a cis-fused cyclohexene moiety. An unusual transformation involving ring-opening, double-bond migration, and then ring-closing was observed.