Electron transfer induced dissociations of 2-and 4-alkyl cyclohexadienones

AJ McCarroll, JA Crayston, JC Walton

Index: McCarroll, Andrew J.; Crayston, Joe A.; Walton, John C. Tetrahedron, 2003 , vol. 59, # 24 p. 4275 - 4280

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Abstract

Several 2-and 4-alkylcyclohexadienones were prepared and shown to accept electrons to produce ketyl radical anions that dissociated rapidly at room temperature to release carbon- centered radicals and an aromatic phenoxide type anion. In the PET process with benzyl- substituted cyclohexadienones, initiated with triethylamine, the benzyl radicals dimerised or abstracted an H-atom from solvent. In electrochemical reductions, and in reductions with ...