Novel one-pot vicinal double C-acylation of styrenes and methacrylates by electroreduction.
[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.
Yamamoto
Yoshimasa
Y
Department of Chemistry, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1, Kamitomioka-cho, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan.
Maekawa
Hirofumi
H
Goda
Satoshi
S
Nishiguchi
Ikuzo
I