Novel one-pot vicinal double C-acylation of styrenes and methacrylates by electroreduction

Yoshimasa Yamamoto; Hirofumi Maekawa; Satoshi Goda; Ikuzo Nishiguchi

doi:10.1021/ol035020v

Novel one-pot vicinal double C-acylation of styrenes and methacrylates by electroreduction

Org Lett. 2003 Jul 24;5(15):2755-8. doi: 10.1021/ol035020v.

Authors

Yoshimasa Yamamoto¹, Hirofumi Maekawa, Satoshi Goda, Ikuzo Nishiguchi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1, Kamitomioka-cho, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan.

PMID: 12868907
DOI: 10.1021/ol035020v

Abstract

[reaction: see text] Electroreduction of styrenes or alkyl methacrylates in the presence of aliphatic acid anhydrides or N-acylimidazoles with an undivided cell equipped with zinc electrodes as the anode and the cathode brought about novel one-pot vicinal double C-acylation to afford the corresponding 1,4-diketones in satisfactory yields.