Download PDF
Synthesis 1990; 1990(7): 563-564
DOI: 10.1055/s-1990-26939
paper
© Georg Thieme Verlag, Rüdigerstr. 14, 70469 Stuttgart, Germany. All rights reserved. This journal, including all individual contributions and illustrations published therein, is legally protected by copyright for the duration of the copyright period. Any use, exploitation or commercialization outside the narrow limits set by copyright legislation, without the publisher's consent, is illegal and liable to criminal prosecution. This applies in particular to photostat reproduction, copying, cyclostyling, mimeographing or duplication of any kind, translating, preparation of microfilms, and electronic data processing and storage.

One-Pot Synthesis of 1,4-Diketones from Nitroalkenes and Ketones

Masaaki Miyashita* , Bahlul Z. E. Awen, Akira Yoshikoshi
  • *Chemical Research Institute of Non-aqueous Solutions, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan
Further Information

Publication History

Publication Date:
17 September 2002 (online)

 PDF Download  Permissions and Reprints All articles of this category

A convenient one-pot synthesis of 1,4-diketones was achieved by the conjugate addition of lithium enolates of ketones to nitroalkenes, followed by in situ hydrolysis of the resulting lithium salts of aci-nitro compounds with aqueous hydrochloric acid in tetrahydrofuran.