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A Novel, Simple and Cheap Source of Alkyl Radicals from Alcohols, Useful for Heterocyclic Substitution
Coppa, Fausta,Fontana, Francesca,Lazzarini, Edoardo,Minisci, Francesco,Pianese, Giuseppe,Zhao, Lihua
, p. 1295 - 1298 (1992)
Alkyl radicals were easily produced from secondary or tertiary alcohols in a cheap and simple way by silver-catalyzed decarboxylation of oxalic acid monoesters by S2O8(2-).They were utilized for the alkylation of heteroaromatic bases in a two-phase system, with high yields and selectivity.