Preparation of a New, Highly Reactive Form of Iron(0) and Its Use in Deprotonation of Carbonyl Compounds

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00193a050

A new, highly reactive form of zerovalent iron, prepared from the reaction of methylmagnesium bromide and ferric chloride, has been found to deprotonate cyclic unsymmetrical ketones in the presence of trimethylsilyl chloride to give thermodynamic (more substituted) silyl enol ethers regiospecifically.