An unprecedented outcome of the lithium-ammonia reduction of enones: The formation of cyclopropanols

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 52, 2002, Pages 9649-9652

  Dumas, Françoise ^a   Thominiaux, Cyrille ^a   Miet, Christine ^a   D'Angelo, Jean ^a   Desmaële, Didier ^a   Nour, Mohammed ^b   Cavé, Christian ^b   Morgant, Georges ^c   Tran Huu Dau, Marie Elise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UFR Pharmacie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Cyclopropanation; Enones; Molecular modeling mechanics; Radical and radical reactions; Reduction

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ESTER; KETONE DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM; PROPANOL; RADICAL;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION;

EID: 0037164646     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(02)02382-1     Document Type: Article

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