Novel synthetic route to aryl alkanes from aromatic aldehydes and ketones. Novel geminal dialkylation of the carbonyl group of aromatic aldehydes and ketones
- 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. 457-458
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39860000457
Abstract
Benzyl-lithiums, readily available from benzyl methyl selenides and alkyl-lithiums, are efficiently alkylated; this reaction allows the geminal dialkylation of the carbonyl groups of aromatic aldehydes and ketones and the geminal aryl–alkylation of aliphatic analogues.Keywords
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