Indium/indium trichloride mediated pinacol cross-coupling reaction of aldehydes and chalcones in aqueous media: a facile stereoselective synthesis of substituted but-3-ene-1,2-diols

✍ Scribed by Vijay Nair; Sindu Ros; C.N. Jayan; Nigam P. Rath

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)02102-0

✦ Synopsis

A facile synthesis of substituted but-3-ene-1,2-diols by the reaction of aldehydes and chalcones mediated by indium/ indium trichloride in aqueous media is described.