All articles of this category Two routes to the differentially functionalised trisubstituted furan methyl 4-methyl-2-[(phenylthio)methyl]-3-furoate are presented. One is a direct palladium catalysed annulation which proceeds smoothly in the presence of a thioether and the other depends on a highly chemoselective displacement of a methoxy group by phenylthiotrimethylsilane. The scope and mechanism of the latter transformation was probed with simple model systems.
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Greeves et al. (1993) studied this question.