Abstract A facile and direct synthetic method was developed for the construction of vicinal tricarbonyl compounds (VTCs) in moderate to excellent yields (46–92%), by treating the readily available 1, 3-dicarbonyl compounds with 2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) in the presence of 2, 3-dichloro-5, 6-dicyano-1, 4-benzoquinone (DDQ). The reaction pathway involves the DDQ-mediated oxidative activation of sp 3 C–H bond and ...
[Allpress, Caleb J.; Grubel, Katarzyna; Szajna-Fuller, Ewa; Arif, Atta M.; Berreau, Lisa M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 , vol. 135, # 2 p. 659 - 668]
