Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

1113. The Clemmensen reduction. Part II. Cyclohexenones

BR Davis, PD Woodgate

Index: Davis,B.R.; Woodgate,P.D. Journal of the Chemical Society, 1965 , p. 5943 - 5948

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Abstract

IN Part I of this Series we demonstrated that several lJ3-diketones on reduction with amalgamated zinc and concentrated hydrochloric acid underwent both reduction and rearrangement to give a monoketone. This supported the hypothesis2 that an intramolecular