Prying open a Thiele cage: discovery of an unprecedented extended pinacol rearrangement
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2019
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Dao, Nathan
Sader, Jonathan K.
Oliver, Allen G.
Wulff, Jeremy E.
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Chemical Communications
Abstract
The first extended pinacol rearrangement across an sp3–sp3 bond is reported. The reaction appears to be both stereo- and regio-specific, and results in an extremely rare example of cage opening for a 1,3-bishomocubane structure derived from Thiele's ester.
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Dao, N., Sader, J. K., Oliver, A. G., & Wulff, J. E. (2019). Prying open a Thiele cage: Discovery of an unprecedented extended pinacol rearrangement. Chemical Communications, 55, 1600-1603. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC08862D