Mingchang Wu, Junhang Yang, Fang Luo, Cungui Cheng and Gangguo Zhu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 5684-5687
DOI:
10.1039/C9OB00836E,
Communication
A Fe-catalyzed domino Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels–Alder reaction of alkenyl aldehydes and 1,3-diketones has been developed. It provides straightforward access to a series of oxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonene derivatives in promising yields with excellent diastereoselectivity and functional group tolerance. The resultant bridged dihydropyrans can be smoothly converted into chromene derivatives, thus highlighting the synthetic utility of this method.