aDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
Abstract:
SmI2-induced reductive cyclization of optically active (E)- and (Z)-β-alkoxyvinyl sulfoxides with aldehyde was developed for the construction of several stereoisomers of tetrahydropyran derivatives.