Abstract

Herein we demonstrate a novel organocatalytic method to access multifunctionalized naphthalenes via an NHC-catalyzed reaction of ynones and o-formyl-tethered Michael acceptors. The presented method proceeds through an intermolecular Stetter reaction-cyclization-aromatization cascade and represents a rare example of organocatalytic benzannulation for the synthesis of substituted arenes by using ynone as a two-carbon synthon. The current method has broad substrate scope; postsynthetic transformations and gram-scale syntheses highlight the practicality of the displayed methodology.

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