81155-86-4Relevant articles and documents
INTRINSIC MIGRATION APTITUDES OF ALKYL GROUPS IN A PINACOL REARRANGEMENT
Wistuba, Eckehardt,Ruechardt, Christoph
, p. 4069 - 4072 (1981)
From rates of solvolysis of substituted cis-2-tosyloxy-cyclopentanols 3 in sodium acetate buffered acetic acid the following relative migration aptitudes were deduced: H(171); CH3(6.7); C2H5(9.7); 2-C3H7(5.2); t-C4H9(2.5); C6H5(62).
Enantioselective titanium(III)-catalyzed reductive cyclization of ketonitriles
Streuff, Jan,Feurer, Markus,Bichovski, Plamen,Frey, Georg,Gellrich, Urs
supporting information; experimental part, p. 8661 - 8664 (2012/09/21)
Reduction, please! The title reaction affords ?-hydroxyketones, a common structural motif in biologically active natural products, in good yields and high enantioselectivities at room temperature. The commercially available ansa-titanocene 1 was found to be an efficient catalyst for this process, which presumably proceeds by addition of a ketyl radical to a nitrile.