Acetylenic ethers as electrophilic and nucleophilic partners in Pd(0) catalyzed heterocouplings

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Bruce H. Lipshutz, lipshutz@chem.ucsb.edu1, David B. Ball2, Claudia E. Avalos, dball@csuchico.edu2, and Jillian E. Hostetter, dball@csuchico.edu2. (1) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, (2) Department of Chemistry, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA 95929-0210
In our progress towards [12] and [14]-fecapentaene, our synthetic strategy has centered around the utilization of linchpin methodology where the linchpin is stereo and chemoselectively coupled to either a nucleophilic acetylenic ether derivative or to an electrophilic vinyl ether iodide. The results of these studies will be detailed.