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Org Lett
; 19(10): 2626-2629, 2017 05 19.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28475338
ABSTRACT
Using triphenylmethylium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate as a convenient Brønsted acid precatalyst, ß-(α,α-dimethylbenzyl)styrenes are shown to cyclize efficiently to afford a variety of new indanes that possess a benzylic quaternary center. The geminal dimethyl-containing quaternary center is proposed to be necessary to arm the substrate for cyclization through steric biasing.