Formation of Unsaturated Esters in the Single Electron Transfer Reaction of Cyclopropanone Acetals with Quinones under Non-irradiated Conditions

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)73235-7

Unsaturated esters were formed from cyclopropanone aceytals in the reaction with DDQ or chloranil, where ring-opened C-C and C-O bonded adducts were the intermediates formed via a SET mechanism resulting in the ester formation.