ALLYLATION OF CARBONYL-COMPOUNDS IN THE PRESENCE OF CATALYTIC ELECTROGENERATED ZINC - UNUSUAL REGIOSELECTIVITY WITH A TRIFLUORINATED ANALOGOF PRENYL BROMIDE
C. Gosmini et al., ALLYLATION OF CARBONYL-COMPOUNDS IN THE PRESENCE OF CATALYTIC ELECTROGENERATED ZINC - UNUSUAL REGIOSELECTIVITY WITH A TRIFLUORINATED ANALOGOF PRENYL BROMIDE, Tetrahedron, 53(17), 1997, pp. 6027-6034
A mild and effective method of electrochemical zinc activation based o
n the cathodic reduction of a catalytic amount of ZnBr2 in acetonitril
e is applied to the coupling of a trifluorinated analog of prenyl brom
ide with carbonyl compounds and affords unusual regioselectivity. (C)
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