William Kerr and co-workers from the University of Strathclyde have reported in Organic Letters on the conversion of tosyl hydrazones to substituted alkenes. I’ve done a similar reaction converting tosyl hydrazones to a monosubstituted alkene using n-BuLi.
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Tosyl hydrazones to substituted alkenes
Posted by naturalproductman on April 17, 2012
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