Conclusions
The one-electron reduction of 2-thiophenaldehyde in DMF as the medium gives, besides the usual dimerization product of the pinacol type, also 5-(α-thienyl)-2-acetoxymethylthiophenaldehyde, which is explained by the dual reactivity of the electrochemically generated anion-radicals.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1150–1153, May, 1981.
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Gul'tyai, V.P., Korotaeva, L.M., Rodionov, A.P. et al. Dual reactivity of electrochemically generated 2-thiophenaldehyde anion-radicals. Russ Chem Bull 30, 911–913 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00955316
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