• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Recent Advances in Ring‐Opening Functionalization of Cycloalkanols by C–C σ‐Bond Cleavage
  • Contributor: Wu, Xinxin; Zhu, Chen
  • Published: Wiley, 2018
  • Published in: The Chemical Record, 18 (2018) 6, Seite 587-598
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/tcr.201700090
  • ISSN: 1528-0691; 1527-8999
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  • Description: AbstractCycloalkanols prove to be privileged precursors for the synthesis of distally substituted alkyl ketones and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by virtue of cleavage of their cyclic C−C bonds. Direct functionalization of cyclobutanols to build up other chemical bonds (e. g., C−F, C−Cl, C−Br, C−N, C−S, C−Se, C−C, etc.) has been achieved by using the ring‐opening strategy. Mechanistically, the C−C cleavage of cyclobutanols can be involved in two pathways: (a) transition‐metal catalyzed β‐carbon elimination; (b) radical‐mediated ‘radical clock’‐type ring opening. The recent advances of our group for the ring‐opening functionalization of tertiary cycloalkanols are described in this account.