Recent advances in the transition-metal catalyzed synthesis of multisubstituted pentenolides and related pyranones

Abstract

This digest focuses on the transition-metal catalyzed syntheses of variously substituted pentenolides, published recently. The review is based on methodologies for the synthesis of pentenolides rather than isolated examples, and covers post-2007 publications reported on this subject.

Brief discussion of the strategies, strengths and drawbacks of the syntheses is also included.

Keywords

• Pentenolides
• Heterocyclic chemistry
• Transition-metal catalysis
• Olefin metathesis
• Diels-Alder reaction