Tetrahedron letters

A new, highly efficient synthesis of conjugated nitrocycloalkenes

R Ballini, C Palestini

Index: Ballini, Roberto; Palestini, Corrado Tetrahedron Letters, 1994 , vol. 35, # 31 p. 5731 - 5734

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Abstract

Abstract Sodium borohydride reduction of α-nitrocycloalkanones and successive dehydration of the obtained β-nitroalkanols, by acetylation and dehydroacetylation with basic alumina/DMAP, in refluxing dichloromethane, affords, in one-pot procedure, conjugated nitrocycloalkenes.