Recent Developments in the Meyer?Schuster Rearrangement

The Meyer-Schuster rearrangement is an efficient method to prepare ?,?-unsatured carbonyl compounds starting from propargylic alcohols and this review presents the remarkable progress made during last decade in reaction. New catalytic systems have been discovered many elegant applications reported for rearrangement. To be noticed particular are new cascade processes affording a wide range of carbo- heterocyclic molecules. Moreover, brilliant described as well, total synthesis complex natural products their analogues. Finally, first examples aza-Meyer-Schuster rearrangements recently well.