A facile and direct synthesis of γ-lactones from methyl β-bromopropionate and ketones mediated by lanthanoid metals
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 6,p. 475-476
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39860000475
Abstract
γ-Lactones were easily prepared from the direct reaction of methyl β-bromopropionate with ketones mediated by lanthanoid metals; a lanthanoid metal ester homoenolate (β-lanthanoid metal substituted ester) is postulated as a reaction intermediate.Keywords
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