Electrochemically induced chain reactions: The addition of fluorene and indene to aromatic aldehydes initiated by electrochemical reduction

Article abstract of DOI:10.1139/v96-007

The electrochemical reduction at -30°C of 2,6-dichlorobenzaldehyde (1a), benzaldehyde (1b), and terephthalaldehyde (2) in tetrahydrofuran with tetrabutylammonium perchlorate as supporting electrolyte, under an argon atmosphere and in the presence of fluor