Book Review: Organotransition Metal Chemistry: Applications to Organic Synthesis. By S. G. Davies

✍ Scribed by Karl Heinz Dötz

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.198406431

✦ Synopsis

This novel C-C bond formation reaction provides a new synthetic pathway for the preparation of phenanthrenequinone-type compounds and their derivatives, especially in view of the easy affordability of substituted benzil derivatives from the corresponding benzaldehydes.

The evolution of the hydrogen gas was followed and measured. The rate of the gas evolution was found to be constant. This observation may indicate that the process is "layer-edge" controlled, i.e. the rate is determined by the surface area of the graphite lattice which contains ordered potassium atoms available for the reaction. This is consistent with the mechanism that we have previously described for the bimolecular reduction of ketoneslZb1. The mechanistic behavior of C8K reactions with ketones, diketones and their analogs is under further investigation.