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C,O-dilithiated diarylmethanols: Easy and improved preparation by naphthalene-catalysed lithiation of diaryl ketones and reactivity toward electrophiles
Guijarro,Mancheno,Yus
, p. 1327 - 1334 (1993)
The lithiation of different diaryl ketones 1 with an excess of lithium powder and a catalytic amount (8 mol %) of naphthalene in tetradrofuran at -30°C leads to the formation of the corresponding dianions of the type I, with Met=Li, which react with several electrophiles (E+=MeI, EtBr, Pr(i)CHO, PhCHO, cyclohexanone, MeCN) to give, after hydrolysis, the expected substituted diarylmethanols 2.