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A selective method has been developed for the synthesis of α-methylene-1,5-diketones by dimerization of vinyl ketones catalyzed by RhCl(PMe3)3. Aromatic vinyl ketones dimerize more readily than aliphatic vinyl ketones.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1098–1103, May, 1989.
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Kovalev, I.P., Kolmogorov, Y.N., Ignatenko, A.V. et al. Selective dimerization of vinyl ketones to 1,5-diketones, catalyzed by RhCl(PMe3)3 . Russ Chem Bull 38, 995–999 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00955432
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