Gold-catalyzed C–O bond forming reactions for the synthesis of six-membered O-heterocycles

Abstract

The heterocycles are present in the drugs and pesticides in a major proportion and development of new strategies for the synthesis of these compounds is attractive topic for the synthetic and medicinal chemists. Synthesis of heterocycles is one of the important areas in synthetic organic chemistry. The present manuscript reported the synthesis of six-membered heterocylces with oxygen heteroatom using gold catalysts. This review covered interesting discoveries in the past few years.