Friedel-crafts arylation of α-hydroxy ketones: Synthesis of 1,2,2,2-tetraarylethanones

  • A. Kumar
  • , T.V. Singh
  • , Sajesh Thomas
  • , P. Venugopalan

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Abstract

© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Friedel-Crafts arylation of α-hydroxy ketones such as 2-hydroxy-1,2,2-triarylethanones has been achieved with a variety of arenes and heteroarenes in the presence of Lewis or Brønsted acids. Both sterically hindered and unhindered 1,2,2,2-tetrarylethanones are formed in good to excellent yields by using a stoichiometric amount of triflic acid. The intermediacy of an ?-keto carbenium ion has been proposed.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1226-1234
JournalEuropean Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume2015
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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