N. S. V. M. Rao Mangina, Surisetti Suresh, Balasubramanian Sridhar and Galla V. Karunakar
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016,14, 3526-3535
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB02676H,
Paper
An efficient gold-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization of ortho-O-propargyl-1-one substituted arylaldehydes has been achieved for the generation of substituted aroylbenzo[b]oxepin-3-one derivatives in moderate to good yields. This synthetic transformation proceeds via gold-catalysed oxidation of the internal alkyne moiety followed by an intramolecular condensation leading to seven-membered oxacycles.