Perkin communications. Iodonium-induced cyclisations of 5-silylalk-4-enols
Abstract
In the presence of hypervalent iodine reagents, silyl-substituted δ,ε-unsaturated alcohols (4a–f) underwent ring-closure to give the pyran-3-ones (5) as well as tosyloxy substituted tetrahydropyrans (6) and (7).