摘要

A Bronsted acid-promoted, unprecedented formal (3 + 2) annulation strategy for the synthesis of multisubstituted furan-3carbothioates is reported. This transformation represents the first regioselective annulation of alpha-oxo ketene dithio-acetals as 1,3-bisnucleophiles in a cascade manner. The choice of isoindoline-1,3-dione-derived propargyl alcohols is crucial to the uncommon annulation mode between an alkyne-type bis-electrophile and a 1,3-bis-nucleophile under metal-free conditions. The scale-up of the synthesis and several interesting transformations of an as-synthesized product were further investigated. A Nazarov-like cyclization is proposed for the ring-closure process according to the experimental observations.