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Regioselective organocadmium alkylations of substituted quinones
Aaron Aponick1, Ryan S Buzdygon, Robert J Tomko
1Department of Chemistry, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania 17003, USA.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
A series of substituted quinones was alkylated with diethylcadmium. Regiochemistry of addition shifted from quinol formation to conjugate addition as a function of the steric and electronic effects of the substituents.