Construction of cyclic enones via gold-catalyzed oxygen transfer reactions

• Leping Liu,
• Bo Xu and
• Gerald B. Hammond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 606–614, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.71

• Leping Liu Bo Xu Gerald B. Hammond Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, 2320 South Brook Street, Louisville, KY 40292, USA 10.3762/bjoc.7.71 Abstract During the last decade, gold-catalyzed reactions have become a tour de force in organic synthesis. Recently, the gold-, Brønsted acid

• this century, organic chemists became aware that gold salts or complexes were highly active catalysts in homogeneous catalysis because of the strong π- and σ-electrophilicity of gold [28][29][30][31][32][33]. Since then, the number of new gold-catalyzed reactions reported in the literature has