The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Ring and carbon-oxygen bond fragmentation as tools for fingerprinting the extent of homolysis during base-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond cleavages of the Haller- …

LA Paquette, GD Maynard

Index: Paquette, Leo A.; Maynard, George D. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1989 , vol. 54, # 21 p. 5054 - 5063

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Abstract

The mechanisms of the base-catalyzed cleavage of non-enolizable ketones (Haller-Bauer reaction), fragmentation of the alkali-metal salts of diphenylcarbinols (Cram cleavage), and decarboxylative elimination of methyllithium-carboxylic acid adducts (Gilday process) are