The Rearrangement of Some Substituted Allyl Alcohols to their Isomeric Ketones1

AS Dreiding, JA Hartman

Index: Dreiding; Hartman Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1956 , vol. 78, p. 1216

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Abstract

It has been shown that the enolic forms of some 8-dicarbonyl compounds are reduced by an excess of lithium aluminum hydride to give one or a pair of substituted allyl alcohols, the number being dependent on the symmetry of P-dicarbonyl compo~ nd.~ A pair of allyl alcohols obtained by such a procedure is usually characterized by their susceptibility to the acid-catalyzed oxotropic rearrangement which results in the more stable isomer. However, ...