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SUBMITTER: Ravikumar PC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2754319 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20091001 19
Addition of NbCl(5) or NbBr(5) to a series of magnesium, lithium, or potassium allylic or propargylic alkoxides directly provides allylic or allenic halides. Halogenation formally occurs through a metalla-halo-[3,3] rearrangement, although concerted, ionic, and direct displacement mechanisms appear to operate competitively. Transposition of the olefin is equally effective for allylic alkoxides prepared by nucleophilic addition, deprotonation, or reduction. Experimentally, the niobium pentahalide ...[more]