Tetrahedron Letters

The cleavage of two carbon-carbon bonds in a Wolff-Kishner reduction

RP Lemieux, P Beak

Index: Lemieux, Robert P.; Beak, Peter Tetrahedron Letters, 1989 , vol. 30, # 11 p. 1353 - 1356

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Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... The reaction of dispiro[cyclopropane-1,1′-indan-3′,1″-cyclopropane]-2′-one (1) under Wolff-Kishner conditions gives spiro[cyclopropane-1,1′-indan] (2) in which the ketone has been reduced and two bonds of one cyclopropane ring have been cleaved.

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