3658 NOTES The Journal of Organic Chemistry electron-withdrawing effect at 30". The Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction is another possible reaction of aluminum alcoholate with a carbonyl compound. The possibility of this reaction, however, was eliminated because of the absence of a hydrogen atom on the a-carbon atom in the t-butoxy group. The structure of I1 was confirmed by elemental analysis and by the products of acid hydrolysis and of ...
