On the cathodic reduction of α-substituted indan 1-ones in the presence or in the absence of oxygen. Mixed hydroxylation and coupling into stereospecific tetraols

✍ Scribed by Armelle Orliac-Le Moing; Jacques Delaunay; Jacques Simonet

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 522 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-4686
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-4686(87)80013-0

✦ Synopsis

It appears that indan l-ones may have a rather unforeseencathodic behaviour when substituted in cl-position by a hydroxy group, with formation of a stereospecifrc tetraol by coupling. Such a dimer was also obtained by means ofa one-step mixed electrolysis of the corresponding indanones in the presence of oxygen. This unexpected reactivity of indanones is discussed as a function of the nature of different substituents adjacent to the carbonyl group.