Thursday, July 10, 2014

Cu-Catalyzed Cascades to Carbocycles: Union of Diaryliodonium Salts with Alkenes or Alkynes Exploiting Remote Carbocations

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja504361y
Fengzhi Zhang, Shoubhik Das, Andrew J. Walkinshaw, Alicia Casitas, Michael Taylor, Marcos G. Suero, and Matthew J. Gaunt 
 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (25), pp 8851–8854 

Scandium-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclization to Produce Cyclobutane-Fused Tetrahydroquinoline, Chromane, Thiochromane, and Tetrahydronaphthalene Derivatives

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adsc.201400020/abstract
Shun-ichi Nakano, Kazumi Kakugawa, Tetsuhiro Nemoto and Yasumasa Hamada
 Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 2088 – 2096