Helvetica Chimica Acta, cilt.95, sa.5, ss.795-804, 2012 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
The 2-thienyl-substituted 4,5-dihydrofuran derivatives 3-8 were obtained by the radical cyclization reaction of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 1a-1f with 2-thienyl-substituted conjugated alkenes 2a-2e by using [Mn(OAc) 3] (Tables 1-5). In this study, reactions of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 1a-1e with alkenes 2a-2c gave 4,5-dihydrofuran derivatives 3-5 in high yields (Tables 1-3). Also the cyclic alkenes 2d and 2e gave the dihydrobenzofuran compounds, i.e., 6 and 7 in good yields (Table 4). Interestingly, the reaction of benzoylacetone (=1-phenylbutane-1,3-dione; 1f) with some alkenes gave two products due to generation of two stable carbocation intermediates (Table 5). Copyright © 2012 Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta AG, Zürich, Switzerland.