Title:Chiral Allenylcarbonyls – Underexploited Building Blocks for Complex
Synthesis
Volume: 19
Issue: 8
Author(s): Krishna Yadavalli*Salvatore D. Lepore*
Affiliation:
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA
Keywords:
Chiral allenylcarbonyls, complex synthesis, cyclobutene, cycloaddition, zinc, diels-alder reaction.
Abstract: Chiral allenylcarbonyls such as allenoates remain underutilized in complex synthesis
despite recent advances in synthesis methods to prepare them non-racemically. The field is now
ripe for the employment of this class of allenes as building blocks to facilitate the construction of
complex small-molecule compounds, such as bridged bicycles.