Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale, Centro di Eccellenza C.I.S.I., Universita’ di Milano, Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, via Venezian 21, I-20133 Milano, Italy
Abstract:
During the course of our synthetic studies towards simplified eleuthesides, we have found that p-methoxyphenyl (PMP) protected allylic alcohols are compatible with the RCM reaction and can give better yields than the corresponding free allylic alcohols.