Radical anion addition of metal ketyls derived from benzophenone and 4-phenylbenzophenone to carbon dioxide

YV Kurbatov, AS Kurbatova

Index: Kurbatov; Kurbatova Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2001 , vol. 37, # 9 p. 1344 - 1345

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Abstract

We have found that metal ketyls are capable of not only participating in radical anion substitution [1, 2] and cycloadditions reactions [3] but also adding to carbon dioxide. The reactions of lithium and sodium diphenylketyls and phenyl-4-biphenylylketyls I and II with carbon dioxide in a solvating solvent (tetrahydrofuran) resulted in formation of the corresponding salts of benzilic acid and hydroxy (phenyl)-4-biphenylylacetic acid III and IV.