I. Sato, Yoshiko Takizawa, K. Soai
Dec 15, 2000
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Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Abstract
Diisopropylzinc is found to be a highly efficient reagent for the formation of zinc enolate equivalents from various iodoacetates via iodine-zinc exchange reaction at room temperature, affording β-hydroxy esters in high yields by the reaction with aldehydes and ketones.