New application of aggregative activation: a very efficient epimerization of alcohols

R Vanderesse, G Feghouli, Y Fort…

Index: Vanderesse, Regis; Feghouli, Ghania; Fort, Yves; Caubere, Paul Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 55, # 23 p. 5916 - 5919

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Abstract

During our studies on the stereoselective reduction of ketones' with complex reducing(MCRA's), we confirmed the suspected2* oxido-reductive properties of a number of these reagents. In fact oxido-reduction is expected every time a transition-metal species prone to give p-metal hydride eliminations is included in CRA's. Taking account of these observations the epimerization of alcohols as given in Scheme I may be proposed. From ...