Interaction of Organolithium Compounds and Salts of Carboxylic Acids

HF Bluhm, HV Donn, HD Zook

Index: Bluhm et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955 , vol. 77, p. 4406

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Citation Number: 30

Abstract

MARCH 14, 19% The reaction between alkyl or aryl lithium compounds and certain carboxylic acids or their lithium salts gives good yields of ketones and little or none of the tertiary alcohol^."^ The analogous reactions of the corresponding esters or acyl halides lead primarily to the tertiary carbinols. This difference in behavior has been attributed to the formation in the former reactions of a dilithium salt which resists further substitution or loss ...