A facile route to convert acetylacetone into other β-diketones with acyl chlorides promoted by samarium triiodide

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397919608004552

Reaction of acetylacetone with acyl chlorides in the presence of SmI₃ gave β-diketones RCOCH₂COCH₃ (I) or RCOCH₂COR (II) in good yields under mild and neutral conditions.

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A Facile Route to Convert
Acetylacetone into Other β-
Diketones with Acyl Chlorides
Promoted by Samarium
Triiodide
Wenying Hao a , Yongmin Zhang a , Taokai Ying a &
Pin Lu a
a Department of Chemistry , Hangzhou University ,
Hangzhou, 310028, P.R. China
Published online: 23 Aug 2006.
To cite this article: Wenying Hao , Yongmin Zhang , Taokai Ying & Pin Lu (1996) A
Facile Route to Convert Acetylacetone into Other β-Diketones with Acyl Chlorides
Promoted by Samarium Triiodide, Synthetic Communications: An International Journal
for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 26:12, 2421-2427, DOI:
10.1080/00397919608004552
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