Issue 25, 2015
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Chemical Communications

An efficient route to highly strained cyclobutenes: indium-catalyzed reactions of enynals with alkynes†

Renxiao Liang,a   Huanfeng Jianga  and  Shifa Zhu*a  

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a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510640, China
E-mail: zhusf@scut.edu.cn
Fax: +86-20-87111141

Abstract

A catalytic method to synthesize the highly strained cyclobutene was developed. The reaction was believed to proceed through a formal indium-catalyzed [2+2] cycloaddition between electron-deficient enynals and various alkynes.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC08506J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Oct 2014
Accepted
26 Dec 2014
First published
05 Jan 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 5530-5533

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An efficient route to highly strained cyclobutenes: indium-catalyzed reactions of enynals with alkynes

R. Liang, H. Jiang and S. Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 5530 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC08506J

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