Journal of organometallic chemistry

A facile synthesis of acetals and aldehydes from allylic ethers catalyzed by cobalt compounds

BH Chang

Index: Chang, Biau-Hung Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1995 , vol. 492, # 1 p. 31 - 34

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 3

Abstract

Octacarbonyldicobalt has been found to be a very effective catalyst for both converting allylic ethers to their corresponding acetals in the presence of an alcohol and hydrolyzing allylic ethers to aldehydes. High yields (> 95%) were obtained in a very short reaction time under