Co-reporter:Gang Hu, Jiaxi Xu, and Pingfan Li
Organic Letters 2014 Volume 16(Issue 22) pp:6036-6039
Publication Date(Web):October 31, 2014
DOI:10.1021/ol5031348
A novel transition-metal-free, sulfur mediated allylic C–H alkylation reaction through a one-pot procedure involving an ene-like step between simple olefins and activated sulfoxides to generate allylic sulfonium intermediates, and a subsequent [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement step under basic conditions to give allylic C–H alkylation products, has been developed. This method is applicable to tri- and disubstituted olefin substrates in both inter- and intramolecular fashions.