REDUCTION OF CONJUGATED DIENOIC CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND ESTERS WITH SODIUM DITHIONITE
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- 5 May 1982
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 11 (5) , 715-718
- https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.1982.715
Abstract
Reduction of 2,4-alkadienoic acids and esters with sodium dithionite was carried out in aqueous solution or under PTC conditions to give, almost exclusively, Z:E isomeric mixtures of the corresponding 3-alkenoic acids and esters, respectively, in good yields.Keywords
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