Carbon-carbon cleavage during Birch-Hueckel-type reductions

CJ Collins, HP Hombach, B Maxwell…

Index: Collins, Clair J.; Hombach, Hans-Peter; Maxwell, Brian; Woody, Madge C.; Benjamin, Ben M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1980 , vol. 102, # 2 p. 851 - 853

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Abstract

Recently it was reported2 that the action on coal (Westerholt Mine, Robert Seam, 24% volatile) of potassium in a mixture of glyme and triglyme, followed by quenching with water,(a) reduced the coal in three passes from ClooH6303. 2 to fractions of composition ClooH14401. 8 (soluble) and ClooHg103. 4 (insoluble) and (b) diminished the molecular weight of the soluble sample from> 1 Os to values of 3000-5000. It further appeared, from ...