Title:An Overview of Julia-lythgoe Olefination
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Author(s): Vijayan Varsha, Sankaran Radhika and Gopinathan Anilkumar*
Affiliation:
- School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India
Keywords:
Julia-lythgoe olefination, sulfones, alkenes, aldehyde, total synthesis, olefin synthesis.
Abstract: Julia-Lythgoe olefination (or simply Julia olefination) is an olefination process between
phenyl sulfones and aldehydes (or ketones) to give alkenes after alcohol functionalization and reductive
elimination using sodium amalgam or SmI2. It is mainly used to synthesize E-alkenes and
is a key step in numerous total syntheses of many natural products. This review exclusively deals
with the Julia-Lythgoe olefination and concentrates mainly on the applications of this reaction in
natural product synthesis covering literature up to 2021.