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Radical reactions leading to substituted coumarins

A Giraud, P Vanelle, L Giraud

Index: Giraud, Anne; Vanelle, Patrice; Giraud, Luc Tetrahedron Letters, 1999 , vol. 40, # 23 p. 4321 - 4322

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Abstract

The reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarins with a series of quinonic chlorides under photostimulation was shown to provide an efficient approach to 3-alkylated coumarin derivatives. Alkylation reactions of this type proceeded via an electron transfer mechanism (SRN1).