Electrochemical Reduction of Activated Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds. 1. Mechanism and Stereochemistry of the Reduction of Phenyl-Substituted Indenes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00334a008

The reduction at a Hg electrode in DMF of some phenyl-substituted indenes was carried out, with the aim of finding out possible relationships between stereochemistry and mechanism of the reaction.The two-electron two-proton reduction occured exclusively a