Tetrahedron Letters 2009-11-01

A Convenient Reagent for Aldehyde to Alkyne Homologation.

DouglassF Taber, Sha Bai, Peng-Fei Guo

Index: Tetrahedron Lett. 49th ed.,, 6904, (2008)

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Abstract

An convenient reagent for the one-carbon homologation of an aldehyde to the corresponding alkyne is reported. This reagent allows this conversion to conveniently be carried out on a large scale under ambient conditions.