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Versatile CO2 Transformations into Complex Products: A One-pot Two-step Strategy
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One-pot formation of allylic chlorides from carbonyl derivatives
Matthew J Fuchter1, Jean-Noël Levy
1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ. m.fuchter@imperial.ac.uk
Organic Letters
|October 7, 2008
Abstract:
An efficient, one-pot method for the conversion of carbonyl electrophiles to allylic chlorides has been developed, by activating magnesium alkoxides in situ using TiCl4.
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