a Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, 150 Yagotoyama, Tempaku, Nagoya 468-8503, Japan b Department of Chemistry and Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8606, Japan
Abstract:
The tin-mediated 6-exo-trig radical cyclization of the acetylenic β-alkoxy acrylates proceeded smoothly to give fully substituted tetrahydropyrans in good yields with high equatorial selectivity irrespective of the stereochemistry of the propargylic position.