Electrochemical deacetylation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1996.143

Mild deacetylation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds was achieved by halonium-ion mediated electrolysis. In this reaction, the supporting electrolyte including sodium halide NaX (X = Cl or Br) was essential since the reaction proceeded through substitution by a halonium ion, generated electrochemically at anode, on active methine carbons followed by base-aitalyzed deacctylation, and was terminated by reductive dehalogenation of the formed α-halo carbonyl compounds at cathode.