"A facile and efficient method for the rearrangment of arylsubstituted epoxides to aldehydes and ketones using Bi-triflate.
Tetrahedron Lett. 42:8129(2001)
Can you post this reference?
I dunno, but I been told ... You never slow down, you never grow old!
https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/pdf/bismuthepoxide2.pdf (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/pdf/bismuthepoxide2.pdf)
can someone please post the bismuth triflate synthesis referenced in that pdf?
this could work like magic for asarone epoxide/glycol acetate?
Bismuth(III) trifluoromethanesulfonate (Bi(OTf)31) can be easily prepared from the reaction of protiodemetallation of triphenylbismuth by a stoichiometric amount of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid. The intermediates Ph3-n Bi(OTf)n[n=2(2),1(3)] have been isolated. This process represents an improvement of the previously reported methods.
2 more things i don't have access to...