Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Radical aryl migration enables diversity-oriented synthesis of structurally diverse medium/macro- or bridged-rings

  • Lei Li,
  • Zhong-Liang Li,
  • Fu-Li Wang,
  • Zhen Guo,
  • Yong-Feng Cheng,
  • Na Wang,
  • Xiao-Wu Dong,
  • Chao Fang,
  • Jingjiang Liu,
  • Chunhui Hou,
  • Bin Tan,
  • Xin-Yuan Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13852
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Medium-sized ring systems are common in natural products, however their synthesis is challenging, largely due to entropic factors. Here the authors report a radical-based method for the synthesis of medium to large functionalized, carbon or heterocyclic scaffolds.