Reductive cleavage of aryl oxazolines to benzaldehydes and substituted toluenes

AI Meyers, RJ Himmelsbach…

Index: Meyers, A. I.; Himmelsbach, Richard J.; Reuman, Michael Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 48, # 22 p. 4053 - 4058

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Abstract

Aryl oxazolines as a vehicle for the elaboration of suitably functionalized aromatic rings has been demonstrated by this group and others during the past 12 years. l As a functional protecting group for carboxylic acids, the oxazoline plays an important role in carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. The oxazoline can serve in an electrophilic sense to activate the aromatic ring toward nucleophilic aromatic substitution or in a nucleophilic sense via ...