Discovery Laboratory, Division of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 500 007, India
Abstract:
d-Glucose based homoallylic alcohol reacts smoothly with various aldehydes in the presence of arenes and a catalytic amount of BF3·OEt2 under mild conditions to afford a novel series of 5,7-diaryl-hexahydro-2H-furo[3,2-b]pyrans in good yields with high cis-selectivity.