Water as efficient medium for mild decarbonylation of tertiary aldehydes

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2803-2807

  Rodrigues, Catarina A B ^a   De Matos, Marta Norton ^a   Guerreiro, Bruno M H ^a   Gonçalves, Ana M L ^a   Romão, Carlos C ^a,b   Afonso, Carlos A M ^c  

^a Alfama   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c Centro de Quimica Fisica Molecular   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acyl radicals; Decarbonylation; Hydroperoxide; Oxygen; Tertiary aldehyde; Water

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 2 PHENYL PROPANAL; 4 ETHYL 4 FORMYL HEXANENITRILE; ALDEHYDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FREE RADICAL; HYDROPEROXIDE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CARBONYLATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79955569626     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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