Zn/OH− reductions of organic compounds in dimethylsulfoxide; A new simple method of preparing radical anions

✍ Scribed by Kishan L. Handoo; Kanchan Gadru

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 153 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)84261-6

✦ Synopsis

A new method of preparing radical anions from a variety of organic substrates is proposed that involves the use of Zn/KOH in DMSO as electron source. &cently reports from our laboratory'and from others'have demonstrated the electron transfer character of OH-in converting readily reducible organic substrates to the corresponding radical anions. We now observe that Zn/OH-in DMSO is a much stronger reductant than is OH-alone in that a wide variety of organic molecules with reduction