Ying Fu, Yanshou Yang, Helmut M. Hügel, Zhengyin Du, Kehu Wang, Danfeng Huang and Yulai Hu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2013,11, 4429-4432
DOI:
10.1039/C3OB40642C,
Communication
In the presence of pinacolone, the in situ prepared triorganoaluminium reagents reacted with aromatic aldehydes to give ketones in moderate to high yield. We propose that the products are formed via a tandem organoaluminium reagents addition–Oppenauer oxidation sequence.
