Carboncarbon bond formation by radical addition–fragmentation reactions of O-tert-alkyl enols and O-cyclopropylcarbinyl enols

✍ Scribed by Yudong Cai; Brian P Roberts

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 148 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(03)01092-x

✦ Synopsis

Terminal alkenes of the type H 2 C C(OR 1 )X, in which R 1 is a tertiary alkyl or a 1-cyclopropylethyl group and X=Ph, OSiMe 2 Bu t , OEt or H, undergo radical-chain reactions with organic halides R 2 Hal to give carbonyl compounds R 2 CH 2 C( O)X.