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Some Useful Synthetic Applications Of Gold's Reagent, John T. Gupton
Some Useful Synthetic Applications Of Gold's Reagent, John T. Gupton
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While looking for some appropriate research projects, I had been impressed by and interested in the work of Danishefsky1 and others2 regarding the use of "Eschenmoser's salt" (1). During the course of a literature search on an industrial project, we came across an article by Gold,3 which described the preparation of a rather interesting vinylogous iminium salt (2). The name assigned to this compound was [3-(dimethylamino)-2-azaprop-2-en-1-ylidene]dimethylammonium chloride. This terminology seemed a little cumbersome for routine discussions so we adopted the name "Gold's Reagent" for compound 2. Although the reagent had been prepared3 in 1960, very little …