ELECTRON-TRANSFER-INDUCED REDUCTIVE CLEAVAGE OF GAMMA-LACTONES TO CARBOXYLIC-ACIDS BY SODIUM-HEXAMETHYLPHOSPHORIC TRIAMIDE (HMPA)

Citation
Jk. Mukhopadhyaya et al., ELECTRON-TRANSFER-INDUCED REDUCTIVE CLEAVAGE OF GAMMA-LACTONES TO CARBOXYLIC-ACIDS BY SODIUM-HEXAMETHYLPHOSPHORIC TRIAMIDE (HMPA), Indian journal of chemistry. Sect. B: organic chemistry, including medical chemistry, 33(2), 1994, pp. 132-136
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
ISSN journal
03764699
Volume
33
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
132 - 136
Database
ISI
SICI code
0376-4699(1994)33:2<132:ERCOGT>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Sodium-hexamethylphosphoric triamide (HMPA) mediated electron transfer induced reductive cleavage of 1-->3 and 1-->2 lambda-lactones fused i n cyclohexane ring gives the corresponding carboxylic acids in good yi elds.