Hydroacenes Made Easy by Gold(I) Catalysis.
Ruth DorelPaul R McGonigalAntonio M EchavarrenPublished in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2016)
A novel strategy for the synthesis of partially saturated acene derivatives has been developed based on a Au(I) -catalyzed cyclization of 1,7-enynes. This method provides straightforward access to stable polycyclic products featuring the backbone of the acene series, up to nonacene.