Dehydrodimerization of ketones, carboxylic acids, amides, esters, alcohols, and amines, via mercury-photosensitization

CG Boojamra, RH Crabtree, RR Ferguson…

Index: Boojamra, Constantine G.; Crabtree, Robert H.; Ferguson, Richard R.; Muedas, Cesar A. Tetrahedron Letters, 1989 , vol. 30, # 41 p. 5583 - 5586

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Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Selective dehydrodimerization of the title compounds can be carried out on a preparative scale at 1 atm. and at 25°–110°C in a simple apparatus by Hg-photosensitized reaction under H 2 . ... All possible stereoisomers are formed, eg, D,L and meso mixtures for each of 1, 2, 6, ...