1. College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, Iksan 54538, Republic of Korea;2. College of Pharmacy and Medicinal Research Center (MRC), Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea
Abstract:
An efficient and facile two-step strategy for the synthesis of (Z)-aurone from arylacetylenes and salicyladehydes, via silver(I) nitrate mediated cyclization/oxidation in the presence of potassium carbonate has been developed. The key feature of our method was delicate cascade reaction, to provide the corresponding (Z)-aurone in high yield and good regio- and stereo selectivity.