Tetrahedron Letters

Insights into the Electrochemical Reductive Cyclization of α, β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Derivatives

PG Gassman, C Lee

Index: Gassman, Paul G.; Lee, Changjin Tetrahedron Letters, 1989 , vol. 30, # 17 p. 2175 - 2178

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Abstract

Abstract A series of acyclic and cyclic α, β-unsaturated esters bearing tethered mesylate leaving groups have been electrochemically reduced to give synthetically useful yields of monocyclic and bicyclic esters via attack of the β-carbon of the α, β-unsaturated ester on the