%0 Journal Article
%T Ring expansions using Baeyer-Villager oxidation: An efficient strategy for the construction of substituted AB-ring systems
%A Bello Y. Makama
%J Organic Communications
%D 2010
%I ACG Publications
%X An approach to the synthesis of regioselective cis fused substituted AB-ring systems is described. The key step involves a thermal cycloaddition to substituted cyclobutanones. The resulting cyclobutanones were subjected to regioselective Baeyer-Villager oxidation protocol
%K Bicyclic lactones
%K thermal
%K cyclcoaddition
%K cyclobutanone
%K Baeyer-Villager oxidation .
%U http://www.acgpubs.org/OC/2010/Volume%203/Issue%201/11_OC-1006-145.pdf