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Addition of organomagnesium reagents to cyanohydrin-O-silyl ethers: An efficient and flexible synthesis of unsymmetrically substituted acyloins

M Gill, MJ Kiefel, DA Lally

Index: Gill, Melvyn; Kiefel, Milton J.; Lally, Deborah A. Tetrahedron Letters, 1986 , vol. 27, # 17 p. 1933 - 1934

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Abstract

Abstract: Acyloins are prepared in high yields via reaction between Grignard reagents and g- trimethylsilyl ethers of aldehydecyanohydrins: the method is particularly useful for the preparation of discrete acyloins in which the substituents are unsymmetrically disposed about the c-hydroxyketone moiety.