Synthesis 2014; 46(01): 1-24
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1340414
review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Recent Progress in the Synthetic Assembly of 2-Cyclopentenones

David J. Aitken*
a   Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique & Méthodologie, ICMMO (CNRS UMR 8182), Université Paris Sud, 15 rue Georges Clemenceau, 91045 Orsay cedex, France   Fax: +33(1)69156278   Email: david.aitken@u-psud.fr
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Hendrik Eijsberg
a   Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique & Méthodologie, ICMMO (CNRS UMR 8182), Université Paris Sud, 15 rue Georges Clemenceau, 91045 Orsay cedex, France   Fax: +33(1)69156278   Email: david.aitken@u-psud.fr
b   Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli studi di Cagliari, Complesso Universitario di Monserrato, S.S. 554, Bivio per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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Angelo Frongia
b   Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli studi di Cagliari, Complesso Universitario di Monserrato, S.S. 554, Bivio per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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Jean Ollivier
a   Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique & Méthodologie, ICMMO (CNRS UMR 8182), Université Paris Sud, 15 rue Georges Clemenceau, 91045 Orsay cedex, France   Fax: +33(1)69156278   Email: david.aitken@u-psud.fr
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Pier Paolo Piras
b   Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli studi di Cagliari, Complesso Universitario di Monserrato, S.S. 554, Bivio per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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Publication History

Received: 09 July 2013

Accepted after revision: 21 August 2013

Publication Date:
21 November 2013 (online)


Abstract

An overview of the most important synthetic strategies currently available for the preparation of cyclopent-2-enones is presented and illustrated with recent applications.

1 Introduction

2 Multicomponent Ring Assembly

3 Cyclizations

4 Transformations of Existing Cyclic Systems

5 Miscellaneous Methods

6 Conclusions