ChemInform Abstract: Green Alcohol Couplings Without Transition Metal Catalysts: Base-Mediated β-Alkylation of Alcohols in Aerobic Conditions.

✍ Scribed by Laura J. Allen; Robert H. Crabtree

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 31 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201101069

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Benzylic secondary alcohols (I) are alkylated in good yields at the β‐position with primary alcohols (II) promoted by KOH or NaOH.