S. Kashimura et al., ELECTROORGANIC CHEMISTRY .149. CATHODIC INTRAMOLECULAR AND INTERMOLECULAR COUPLINGS OF KETONES WITH UNSATURATED SILANES, Tetrahedron letters, 36(28), 1995, pp. 5041-5044
The electroreduction of 6-trimethylsilyl-6-hepten-2-one afforded cis-1
-methyl-3-trimethylsilyl cyclohexanol, and gamma-trimethylsilyl alcoho
ls were yielded as the intermolecular coupling products when the catho
dic reduction of ketones was carried out in the presence of unsaturate
d silanes.