Aldehydes Disguised
Posted by naturalproductman on May 28, 2009
Michael Krische at UT Austin has come out with a paper in ACIEE on these allyl alcohols that are masked aldehydes.
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transmetallator said
i think this paper is pretty cool. I’ve though about ways to make symmetrical aldehydes (ozonolysis of cyclic olefin for example) and the lierature examples all show significant problems with hydrate forms. I hadn’t seen this paper thanks for the post.