Some Useful Synthetic Applications of Gold's Reagent

Abstract

Introduction While looking for some appropriate research projects, I had been impressed by and interested in the work of Danishefsky' and others' regarding the use of "Eschen-moser's salt" (1). During the course of a l~terature search on an industrial project, we came across an article by Gold,' which described the preparation of a rather interesting vinylogous iminium salt (2). The name assigned to this compound was