The Cleavage of Carbonyl Compounds by Alkalies. XI. The Action of Hypobromite Solutions on Beta-Diketones

CF Woodward, RC Fuson

Index: Woodward; Fuson Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1933 , vol. 55, p. 3472,3474

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Abstract

In view of the fact that certain compounds containing active methylene groups are rapidly halogenated by alkali hypohalites,'it became a matter of interest to determine what course the reaction would take in the case of P-diketones of the type IICOCH2COCH3 which contain both an active methylene group and an active methyl group. It was to be expected that if R is an aryl group carrying suitable ortho substituents, the chain scission at the ...