American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 48(127), p. 16804-16805, 2005
DOI: 10.1021/ja056419c
Wiley-VCH Verlag, ChemInform, 15(37), 2006
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The treatment of readily available propargylic indole-3-acetates with a catalytic amount of AuCl(PPh3)/AgSbF6 leads to tandem activations of the propargylic esters and the in situ generated allenylic esters, resulting in expeditious access to highly functionalized cyclobutanes with fused 2,3-indoline and gamma-lactone rings and an exocyclic E-double bond through sequential 3,3-rearrangement and [2 + 2] cyclization.