ChemInform Abstract: Microwave-Assisted, Aqueous Wittig Reactions: Organic-Solvent- and Protecting-Group-Free Chemoselective Synthesis of Functionalized Alkenes.

✍ Scribed by James McNulty; Priyabrata Das; David McLeod

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201043111

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A variety of triethylallyl and triethylbenzyl phosphonium bromides is prepared with nearly quantitative yields by the direct reaction of triethylphosphane hydrobromide and alcohols under conventional heating and neat conditions [cf.