TY - JOUR KW - Propargylic alcohols KW - Bronsted acid KW - Nucleophilic substitution KW - Friedel-Crafts reaction KW - Homogeneous catalysis ID - discovery1473231 N2 - The activity of HBF4 (aqueous solution) as a catalyst in propargylation reactions is presented. Diverse types of nucleophiles were employed in order to form new C?O, C?N and C?C bonds in technical acetone and in air. Good to excellent yields and good chemoselectivities were obtained using low acid loading (typically 1 mol-%) under simple reaction conditions. EP - 7549 Y1 - 2015/12// AV - public TI - HBF4-Catalysed Nucleophilic Substitutions of Propargylic Alcohols A1 - Barreiro, E A1 - Sanz-Vidal, A A1 - Tan, E A1 - Lau, S-H A1 - Sheppard, TD A1 - Diez-Gonzalez, S JF - European Journal of Organic Chemistry SN - 1434-193X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201501249 N1 - © 2015 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. IS - 34 SP - 7544 VL - 2015 ER -