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Oxidation of substituted 2-methylpyrroles with perhalogenated metalloporphyrins: A one-pot synthesis of dipyrromethanes

V Karunaratne, D Dolphin

Index: Karunaratne, Veranja; Dolphin, David Tetrahedron Letters, 1996 , vol. 37, # 5 p. 603 - 604

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Abstract

A variety of substituted 2-methylpyrroles underwent allylic oxidation with the perchlorinated metalloporphyrin 2 and iodosylbenzene in TFA/CH2Cl2 (9: 2). Subsequent addition of an α- free pyrrole to the same reaction mixture afforded an efficient one-pot route to dipyrromethanes.