Yamamoto Yoshimasa, Maekawa Hirofumi, Goda Satoshi, Nishiguchi Ikuzo
Department of Chemistry, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1, Kamitomioka-cho, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan.
Org Lett. 2003 Jul 24;5(15):2755-8. doi: 10.1021/ol035020v.
[reaction: see text] Electroreduction of styrenes or alkyl methacrylates in the presence of aliphatic acid anhydrides or N-acylimidazoles with an undivided cell equipped with zinc electrodes as the anode and the cathode brought about novel one-pot vicinal double C-acylation to afford the corresponding 1,4-diketones in satisfactory yields.