Xiaoqing Xin, Qian Zhang, Yongjiu Liang, Rui Zhang and Dewen Dong
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 2427-2435
DOI:
10.1039/C4OB00087K,
Paper
An efficient one-pot synthetic route to highly substituted cyclopropanes has been developed from readily available α,β-unsaturated nitriles and doubly activated methylene compounds under very mild conditions in a highly diastereoselective manner, which involves halogenation, Michael addition and intramolecular ring-closing reaction sequences.