REARRANGEMENTS OF CYCLOPROPENES INTO FIVE-MEMBERED AROMATIC HETEROCYCLES: MECHANISTIC ASPECT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/1307Keywords:
cyclopropenes, furans, indolizines, pyrroles, transition metal complexes, Lewis acids, catalysis, photochemistryAbstract
This review covers rearrangements of cyclopropenes into aromatic five-membered heterocyclic compounds, namely furans and pyrroles; accompanied by small ring cleavage proceeding in the presence of catalytic amounts of transition metals, Lewis acids, or under UV irradiation.
Authors: M. Rubin and P. G. Ryabchuk.
English translation in Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, 2012, 48 (1), pp 126-138