Intermolecular cyclization processes in the anodic oxidation of ketene imines: formation of heterocyclic dimers and trimers

JY Becker, E Shakkour, J Sarma

Index: Becker, James Y.; Shakkour, Elias; Sarma, J. A. P. R. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1992 , vol. 57, # 13 p. 3716 - 3720

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Abstract

Ketene imines are useful in the synthesis of heterocycles, both by condensation'with other dipolar systems and by cyclic dimerizations2 Earlier, we observed that the electrochemical oxidation of other types of organic molecules which also contain a cumulenic functionality, eg, alkyl-isothiocyanatm (RNCS), lead to cyclic dimerization to form five-membered heterocycle^.^ Recently, we have reported4 preliminary results of the electrochemical ...