Flash vacuum thermolysis of 1, 3-dioxolan-4-ones

TB Cameron, FM El-Kabbani…

Index: Cameron, Tim B.; El-Kabbani, Fiesal M.; Pinnick, Harold W. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981 , vol. 103, # 18 p. 5414 - 5417

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Abstract

Abstract: Flash vacuum thermolysis of 1, 3-dioxolan-4-ones yields aldehydes and ketones as the major products as the result of apparent decarbonylation of a lactones formed by collapse of a 1, 3 dipole. When phenyl substituents are present, epoxides are also formed via the intermediacy of a carbonyl ylide.