Chloroform as a hydrogen atom donor in Barton reductive decarboxylation reactions

…, CM Williams, ML Coote, J Tsanaktsidis

Index: Ko, Eun Jung; Williams, Craig M.; Savage, G. Paul; Tsanaktsidis, John Organic Syntheses, 2012 , vol. 89, p. 471 - 479

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Abstract

The utility of chloroform as both a solvent and a hydrogen atom donor in Barton reductive decarboxylation of a range of carboxylic acids was recently demonstrated (Ko, EJ et al. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1944). In the present work, a combination of electronic structure calculations,