Electron transfer reactions. Reaction of furanones and bifurandiones with potassium and oxygen

B Pandey, RK Tikare, M Muneer, PV Kamat…

Index: Pandey, Bipin; Tikare, Ravindra K.; Muneer, Mohammed; Kamat, Prashant V.; George, Manapurathu V. Chemische Berichte, 1986 , vol. 119, # 3 p. 917 - 928

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Abstract

Abstract Treatment of furanones (1a–c, 25, 34) and bifurandiones (23, 37) with potassium in THF gave rise to radical anion intermediates, which reacted with oxygen to give superoxide and ultimately products derived through the reaction of superoxide with the starting furanones and bifurandiones. Thus, the reaction of 1a with potassium gave a mixture of 4- oxo-2, 2, 4-triphenylbutanoic acid (7a), 1, 3, 3-triphenyl-2-propen-1-one (11a), and ...