Abstract
Ethyl acrylate and acrylonitrile fail to undergo efficient Baylis- Hillman reaction with fluoral, but provide good yields of products with pentafluorobenzaldehyde. Alternately, unsubstituted and β-substituted [α- (ethoxycarbonyl)vinyl]aluminum react with perfluoroalkyl and -aryl aldehydes and ketones to provide the α-hydroxyalkenylated fluoro-organic compounds in good to excellent yields.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 8791-8794 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron Letters |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 48 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 26 1998 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments. The financial assistance from the Purdue Borane Research Fund is gratefully acknowledged. We are thankful to Professor Herbert C. Brown for helpful discussions and encouragement.