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Selective Grignard-type carbonyl addition of alkenyl halides mediated by chromium (II) chloride

K Takai, K Kimura, T Kuroda, T Hiyama, H Nozaki

Index: Takai, Kazuhiko; Kimura, Keizo; Kuroda, Tooru; Hiyama, Tamejiro; Nozaki, Hitosi Tetrahedron Letters, 1983 , vol. 24, # 47 p. 5281 - 5284

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Abstract

Abstract Alkenyl (or aryl) iodide (or bromide) is readily reduced with CrCl 2 is N, N- dimethylformamide at 25 C to gice the corresponding organochromium species which adds selectively to an aldehyde moiety without affecting the coexisting ketone or cyano group of the substrate.