Synlett 1997; 1997(9): 1073-1074
DOI: 10.1055/s-1997-1537
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Selective Demetalations of Iron Diene Complexes. Expedient Synthesis of Substituted (Z)-Allylalcohols

Jutta Böhmer, Walter Förtsch, Rainer Schobert*
  • *Institut für Organische Chemie der Univesität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Henkestraße 42, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany, Fax +49 9131 85 6864; E-mail schobert@organik.uni-erlangen.de
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31 December 2000 (online)

(3E)-6-Oxo-1,3-dienetricarbonyliron complexes 1 can be demetalated in good yields exclusively either to the free unrearranged (3E)-6-oxodiene 2 with ceric ammonium nitrate in methanol or to the (2Z)-6-oxoallylalcohol 3 by an excess of NaOH/H2O2.