ChemInform Abstract: Addition of Electrochemically-Generated Anions to Aldehydes and Olefins: Effect of Reaction Medium and Anion Basicity.

✍ Scribed by C. SUBA; M. E. NIYAZYMBETOV; D. H. EVANS

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 30 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.199738045

✦ Synopsis

Addition of Electrochemically-Generated Anions to Aldehydes and Olefins: Effect of Reaction Medium and Anion Basicity.

-The electrochemically induced addition of nitromethane to mono-and dialdehydes as well as mono-and diolefins is dependent on the solvent. Best results are obtained in pure nitromethane solution. The diolefins are further submitted to attack of various electrochemically generated nucleophiles. Whether polymerization, double Michael addition or no reaction occurs depends greatley on the pKa and on the structure of the starting anion.

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