New Strategies in Carbonylation Chemistry: The Synthesis of δ-Lactones from Saturated Alcohols and CO

…, I Ryu, T Okuda, M Tanaka, M Komatsu…

Index: Tsunoi, Shinji; Ryu, Ilhyong; Okuda, Tohru; Tanaka, Minoru; Komatsu, Mitsuo; Sonoda, Noboru Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1998 , vol. 120, # 34 p. 8692 - 8701

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Abstract

This paper describes the δ-carbonylation of saturated alcohols which uses a 1, 5-hydrogen- transfer reaction of alkoxyl radicals and subsequent carbonylation at the δ-carbon atoms as the key. The carbonylation reactions of five classes of saturated alcohols, namely, primary alcohols having primary δ-carbons, primary alcohols having secondary δ-carbons, primary alcohols having tertiary δ-carbons, secondary alcohols having primary δ-carbons, ...