Electrochemical reductive cleavage from polyenes and carotenoids
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 19,p. 779-780
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39760000779
Abstract
Cathodic cleavage of acetate from vitamin A acetate (1) and crustaxanthin tetra-acetate (8) igves novel and convenient routes to, respectrively, axerophtene (3) and 3,4,3′,4′-tetradehydro-βcarotene (10); these hydrocarbons are sensitive and have hitherto been obtained with difficulty.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: