Synthesis 2016; 48(09): 1399-1406
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1561366
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Microwave-Promoted Deprenylation: Prenyl Ether as a Thermo­labile Phenol Protecting Group

Bernd Schmidt*
Universitaet Potsdam, Institut fuer Chemie, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany   Email: bernd.schmidt@uni-potsdam.de
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Martin Riemer
Universitaet Potsdam, Institut fuer Chemie, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany   Email: bernd.schmidt@uni-potsdam.de
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Publication History

Received: 28 October 2015

Accepted after revision: 14 January 2016

Publication Date:
10 February 2016 (online)


Abstract

para-Substituted aryl prenyl ethers undergo a deprenylation reaction upon microwave irradiation. This offers the opportunity to use a prenyl ether as a thermolabile protecting group in the synthesis of natural products with a chromone structure, which proceeds via a tandem deprenylation/6-endo-cyclization sequence.

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