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Direct synthesis of γ-butyrolactones via γ-phenyl substituted butyric acids mediated benzyl radical cyclization
Mahmoodi,Jazayri
, p. 1467 - 1475 (2007/10/03)
Synthesis of several γ-butyrolactones with aromatic substitution at carbon 5 from comparative γ-aryl acids with 25-85% yield are covered. The straight oxidation in the presence of peroxydisulphate-copper(II)chloride system in aqueous medium was applied. The reaction is highly regioselective and leads exclusively to γ-butyrolactone, through stable benzylic radical intermediate.
THE HYDROCYANATION OF FREE AND POLYMER-BOUND BENZOQUINONE
Perry, Gregory J.,Sutherland, Maurice D.
, p. 1471 - 1476 (2007/10/02)
The polimer-bound quinone 2 has been prepared and used in column form with organic solvents for the convenient preparation of other quinones.In contrast to the solution reaction hydrocyanation of this quinone by the Thiele-Meisenheimer reaction did not yield a useful proportion of polymer-bound dicyanohydroquinone but instead gave a mixture of products including much monocyanohydroquinone.Helferich and Bodenbender's 2,3-dicyanocyclohexan-1,4-dione is in fact wholly the di-enol and is a likely intermediate in the hydrocyanation of benzoquinone, being oxidised by the latter to 2,3-dicyanocyclohex-2-ene-1,4-dione which tautomerises to the observed product, 2,3-dicyanohydroquinone.A lower accessibility to polymer-bound reactants as compared with those in solution is implied by these results.
