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Tin-free reductive photochemical carboxymethylation of olefins with α-alkylthioacetates

LX Deng, AG Kutateladze

Index: Deng, Lisa X.; Kutateladze, Andrei G. Tetrahedron Letters, 1997 , vol. 38, # 45 p. 7829 - 7832

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Abstract

An efficient tin-free reductive photochemical carboxymethylation of olefins with α- alkylthioacetates is developed, which (a) is an experimentally simple technique furnishing substituted derivatives of fatty acids in moderate to good yields,(b) is compatible with polar/protic functional groups and solvents,(c) does not require a special reducing reagent,(d) is fairly insensitive to the presence of dissolved oxygen and, generally, does ...