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Chemistry of 1, 4-dioxene II: A new method for the two-carbon homologation of aldehydes and ketones to α-hydroxymethyl ketones

M Fetizon, I Hanna, J Rens

Index: Fetizon, Marcel; Hanna, Issam; Rens, Janine Tetrahedron Letters, 1985 , vol. 26, # 29 p. 3453 - 3456

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Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique - Ecole Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France. ... 1,4-Dioxen-2-yl lithium reacts with ketones or aldehydes to give alcohols which lead after an allylic rearrangement under mild conditions, followed by reduction and hydrolysis to α- ...