Journal of the American Chemical Society

Synthesis of Unsymmetrical α-Ketols by the Mixed Acyloin Reaction

JW Lynn, J English Jr

Index: Lynn; English Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1951 , vol. 73, p. 4284

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Citation Number: 12

Abstract

A survey of the literature concerning the acyloin reaction2 revealed only limited application to the synthesis of unsymmetrical a-ketols. Other reported methods for the preparation of compounds of this class frequently suffer from the disadvantage of requiring relatively inaccessible starting material~.~-~ The mixed acyloin reaction has previously been employed only by Baudartg in his synthesis of several unsaturated long-chain fatty acids ...