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Highly Selective Aldol Reaction of Dibenzoylmethanes with Formaldehyde Catalyzed by Cobalt Schiff Base Complex under Neutral Conditions
Maruyama, Kazushige,Kubo, Katsunobu,Toda, Yukinobu,Kawase, Kazuhiko,Mashino, Takahiro,Nishinaga, Akira
, p. 5609 - 5612 (2007/10/02)
Coordinatively saturated hydroxocobalt(III) Schiff base complexes catalyze highly selective aldol reaction of dibenzoylmethanes with formaldehyde in methanol to give 1,3-dibenzoylpropanes, resulting from retro-Claisen reaction of 1,1,3,3-tetrabenzoylpropanes, which are obtained quantitatively in dichlorometane.Coordinatively saturated cobalt(III) Schiff base complexes ligating a substrate anion as a monodentate ligand is found to be the reactive species.