Single and Double Reductive Cleavage of C-O Bonds of Aromatic Acetals and Ketals: Generation of Benzylic Mono- and Dicarbanions

Academic Article

Publication Date:

1994

Short description:

Single and Double Reductive Cleavage of C-O Bonds of Aromatic Acetals and Ketals: Generation of Benzylic Mono- and Dicarbanions / Azzena, U.G., G., M., Pisano, L., B., S.. - In: TETRAHEDRON LETTERS. - ISSN 0040-4039. - 35:36(1994), pp. 6759-6762. [10.1016/S0040-4039(00)73488-5]

abstract:

The reductive cleavage of diarylmethyl methyl ethers with Li metal in THF led to quantitative formation of the corresponding diarylmethyl anions. Quenching with electrophiles afforded substituted diarylmethanes in good to excellent yields

Iris type:

1.1 Articolo in rivista

Keywords:

aromatic acetals; reductive metalation; organolithium compounds

List of contributors:

Azzena, Ugo Gavino; G., Melloni; Pisano, Luisa; B., Sechi

Authors of the University:

PISANO Luisa

Handle:

https://iris.uniss.it/handle/11388/48561

Published in:

TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Journal