Dehydration induced by intramolecular redox character of a stable allylidenetributylphosphorane

Y Kawamura, Y Sato, T Horie, M Tsukayama

Index: Kawamura, Yasuhiko; Sato, Yoshinori; Horie, Tokunaru; Tsukayama, Masao Tetrahedron Letters, 1997 , vol. 38, # 45 p. 7893 - 7896

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Abstract

An air and moisture stable P-ylide, dimethyl fluorenylidenetributylphosphoranylidene- succinate acts as a new type of dehydrating agent for synthesizing acid anhydride, ester, and amide. The ylide is most suitable for inducing these reactions in analogous P-ylides. The reaction is considered to be caused by internal reductive and oxidative nature of the P- ylide.