| Literature DB >> 17309276 |
Geoffrey Deguest1, Laurent Bischoff, Corinne Fruit, Francis Marsais.
Abstract
A very simple, safe and powerful method for the in situ generation of formaldehyde at low temperature in anhydrous conditions is described. This new tool avoids the use of gaseous formaldehyde and is suitable for basic carbon nucleophiles which cannot be generated in aqueous reaction media. Various substrates, including organolithium reagents and enolates, underwent smooth hydroxymethylation showing the versatility of this process. A Wittig reaction was also carried out in high yield. [reaction: see text]Entities:
Year: 2007 PMID: 17309276 DOI: 10.1021/ol070145b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005