Lm. Harwood et al., EFFICIENT PREPARATION OF ENOL CARBONATES BY SELECTIVE O-ACYLATION OF KETONE SODIUM ENOLATES GENERATED IN THE PRESENCE OF TMEDA, Tetrahedron letters, 35(43), 1994, pp. 8027-8030
Generating sodium enolates in the presence of TMEDA followed by invers
e addition to chloroformate esters leads cleanly to the O-acylated mat
erials and provides a practical means of preparing such derivatives. I
n the absence of TMEDA mixtures of O- and C-acylated materials are obt
ained.