M. Julia et al., HYDROXYLATION OF CARBANIONS WITH LITHIUM TERT-BUTYL PEROXIDE ACTING AS AN OXENOID, Bulletin de la Societe chimique de France, 133(1), 1996, pp. 15-24
The lithium salt of tert-butyl hydroperoxide can convert alkyl, vinyl,
aryl carbanions, acetylides and various enolates into the correspondi
ng hydroxylated derivatives in good yields and under mild conditions.