Metal-catalysed alkyl ketone to ethyl ketone conversions in chelating ketones via carbon–carbon bond cleavage

JW Suggs, CH Jun

Index: Suggs, J. William; Jun, Chul-Ho Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1985 , # 2 p. 92 - 93

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Citation Number: 56

Abstract

8-Quinolinyl alkyl ketones, in which the alkyl group has β-hydrogens, react with various RhI and IrI complexes under ethylene to give, in a catalytic process, 8-quinolinyl ethyl ketone; the same reaction with 8-quinolinyl phenyl ketone produces styrene via ethylene insertion into a rhodium–phenyl bond and β-elimination of the resulting phenylethyl complex.